Paul Boin - Perl

Smart concatenation of logrotate'd files to permanent log.

nospam@example.com (Paul Boin) — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 08:55:00 -0700

On my webhost, I've got an eight-day logrotation of my apache logs. I didn't set this up (and can't change it), so it is what it is...

Now, I run rsync every day to get those log files, MySQL dumps, all kinds of good stuff. There's a problem with this though: as logrotate does it's thing, each of the 1-8 files get clobbered in turn. So, my logs don't accumulate.

What I want to do is to concatenate the files into a local master log that I can analyze over time.

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CPAN as non-root user, on a web host

nospam@example.com (Paul Boin) — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 14:25:38 -0700

Oh, man is this nice. I've been strugling a while to figure out how to run CPAN as a user without root access. I finally came across a nice, clear set of instructions. Good enough to document here for future reference.

HOWTO: Run CPAN as a non-root user

CPAN / PAUSE account

nospam@example.com (Paul Boin) — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 08:35:54 -0700

Just to see how it goes, I've decided to apply for a PAUSE account.

I have a utility that I've been sitting on for a long time called OS390::IEBUtils that should reallly be published. It allows a perl environment to unpack PDS members that were concatenated by IEBPTPCH, and it also allows the same environment to build an IEBUPDTE stream from a directory full of files.

This is probably one of those cases where it's not the utility that's so valuable, it's the experience from publishing it, building a tight test suite, accepting patches & suggestions, etc.

Update: Wow, got an approval very quickly. The PAUSE FAQ indicates that they shoot for a week. I got my moderation response in about 20 mins. Now I know what I'll be doing this AM.

Update: Cool. Looks like everything got updated, and it's listed properly on CPAN. Here's a first look at OS390::IEBUtils.