View/rotate logs
This section allows you to administrate your log files. Simply select
the server you are interested in, and choose the
select option to enter the log administration section.
At this stage, you can view both the error and transfer logs, or
choose to rotate the logs.
View error logs
This option will display the error logs using your browser. Select
how many lines of the logs you wish to display. This value is counted
from the end of the log file, so you always see the latest entries.
You can select ALL if you wish to see the entire log file.
View transfer logs
Displays the transfer logs of the server using your browser. You may
select two different types output, plain and fancy. Fancy requires a
browser that supports tables, such as Netscape Navigator, or Microsoft
Internet Explorer.
You may choose to display only lines containing certain strings, by
entering a search criteria. This is a full regular expression search,
so you can use the full power of the standard regular expression
library. You can also choose the maximum number of lines to display
in the same way as the error log viewing detailed above.
Note: A copy of Perl is required to be installed in
/usr/local/bin for the log viewing scripts to work.
If you do not have a copy of Perl, the latest version can be
downloaded from here.
Log rotation
What is log rotation?
A heavily hit web-site is likely to generate many megabytes of logs
per day. Log rotation is the process of progressively moving logs to
older files. This makes it easy to run the log files through
statistical analysis programs so that you can ascertain information
about the clients connecting to your site during say the last week.
For example, the first rotation will convert a file transfer
to transfer.0, and create an empty file transfer
where the logs will be written to. The next rotation will move
transfer.0 to transfer.1, transfer to
transfer.0 and create an empty file transfer. Logs
can be rotated manually by selecting the log rotation option on this
page, or you can set up your computer to automatically rotate the log
file ever day or week, please look here for
information on how to set this up
Rotate transfer logs
This option force the administration server to rotate the transfer log
files for this server, as described above.
Rotate error logs
This option is similar to the rotate transfer logs above, except that
it will rotate the error logs instead. Generally this is required
less often since the amount of information generated in this file is
substantially less than the transfer logs.
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