logfiles

console.log symlink can not read log files

I made symlinks to log files stored inside of my user directory in a folder called apache.logs, however, console.log can not read them, the log files come up with a bunch of garbage. I found out how to fix this in the past but have been unable to figure it out. any ideas? thank you for your help ...

Partially re-create Risk-like game based on incomplete log files

I'm trying to re-create this conquerclub (Risk-like) game: http://conquerclub.barrycarter.info/ONEOFF/7460216.html In other words, I want to know who owned each territory at each point in time, and how many troops they had on that territory. My primary source of information is the Game Log. Notes: % It's not in the Game Log, but ...

Web log file analysis software to measure search crawlers

I need to analyze the search engine crawling going on in my site. Is there a good tool for this? I've tried AWStats and Sawmill. But both of those give me very limited insight into the crawling. I need to know information like how many unique/distinct webpages in a section of my site was crawled by a specific crawler within a time period...

Storing millions of log files - Approx 25 TB a year

Hi Folks, As part of my work we get approx 25TB worth log files annually, currently it been saved over an NFS based filesystem. Some are archived as in zipped/tar.gz while others reside in pure text format. I am looking for alternatives of using an NFS based system. I looked at MongoDB, CouchDB. The fact that they are document oriented...

How to purge the Database data and log files in MySQL ?

I want to purge the ibdata1, ib_logfile0 and ib_logfile1 files in MySQL. Because these files are taking too much space of my C:\ disk. And I don't want to move these files anywhere else in the Hard disk. I heard about purging which can shrink the data. I am using Windows Vista. What are the steps to be done to purge the data ? ...

How do I trim a log file with vb.net?

I'm writing a simple application in vb.net and need to output some information to a log file for diagnostic purposes. In order to ensure that the log file doesn't get too big, I need to trim it to a certain number of lines (say 5000). For performance reasons, the trimming doesn't have to occur each time a log entry is written out nor is...