11-13-2018
Yes, I read all the posts.
Adding www-data to sudoers in not a very secure way to so this; and it is not the way I would do this and I have been doing this for more than 15 years.
You are making your web-server user id run at super user privileges; and this is not secure.
But, you seem to not want to listen to people with 15 years experience doing what you are trying to do for the first time, so I think better I do not help you; since I have done what you are trying to do many, many times, and have never, ever given a web server super user privs for any task.
Some people just simply like to do things in insecure, not well designed ways; and not listen to those who have done it correctly and securely many times
Good luck!
Note: For anyone else reading this thread in the future. Never run your web server user id (uid) with root privileges or sudo privs (as in the "solution" in this post). Never do it. It is a huge security risk you do not want nor need to ever do. A web server should never run as root or as sudo root or otherwise.
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mergelogs
MERGELOGS(1) General Commands Manual MERGELOGS(1)
NAME
mergelogs - merge and consolidate web server logs
SYNOPSIS
mergelogs -p penlog [-c] [-d] [-j jitter] [-t seconds] server1:logfile1 [server2:logfile2 ...]
EXAMPLES
mergelogs -p pen.log 10.0.0.1:access_log.1 10.0.0.2:access_log.2
mergelogs -p pen.log 10.0.18.6:access_log-10.0.18.6 10.0.18.8:access_log-10.0.18.8
DESCRIPTION
When pen is used to load balance web servers, the web server log file lists all accesses as coming from the host running pen. This makes it
more difficult to analyze the log file.
To solve this, pen creates its own log file, which contains the real client address, the time of the access, the target server address and
the first few bytes of the requests.
Mergelogs reads pen's log file and the log files of all load balanced web servers, compares each entry and creates a combined log file that
looks as if the web server cluster were a single physical server. Client addresses are replaced with the real client addresses.
In the event that no matching client address can be found in the pen log, the server address is used instead. This should never happen, and
is meant as a debugging tool. A large number of these indicates that the server system date needs to be set, or that the jitter value is
too small.
You probably don't want to use this program. Penlog is a much more elegant and functional solution.
OPTIONS
-c Do not cache pen log entries. The use of this option is not recommended, as it will make mergelogs search the entire pen log for
every line in the web server logs.
-d Debugging (repeat for more).
-p penlog
Log file from pen.
-j jitter
Jitter in seconds (default 600). This is the maximum variation in time stamps in the pen and web server log files. A smaller value
will result in a smaller pen log cache and faster processing, at the risk of missed entries.
-t seconds
The difference in seconds between the time on the pen server and UTC. For example, this is 7200 (two hours) in Finland.
server:logfile
Web server address and name of log file.
AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 2001-2003 Ulric Eriksson, <ulric@siag.nu>.
SEE ALSO
pen(1), webresolve(1), penlog(1), penlogd(1)
LOCAL MERGELOGS(1)