[Gllug] nologs stuff after cfp

Richard Jones rich at annexia.org
Tue Apr 8 12:55:01 UTC 2003


On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 01:19:17PM +0100, SteveC wrote:
> Of course some logging is needed for debugging, but generally keeping
> apache logs for days/weeks eats disk space and isn't really needed (or
> done much, I know).  Maybe drop the ip address from the logs? Maybe
> don't just rm those logs when not needed, but overwrite them with random
> bytes? Maybe hash the ip address of logs older than 24 hours so its 
> still useful for statistics, while since its >24 hours old it probably  
> isn't useful for debugging?

I'd like to see them force me to keep webserver logs on my Zaurus :-)

Or, if I had one, on my tiny embedded webserver appliance.

Rich.

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