Bug 1044188

Summary: [RFE] Recognize compressed log files
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Nathan Kinder <nkinder>
Component: 389-ds-baseAssignee: Rich Megginson <rmeggins>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Viktor Ashirov <vashirov>
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Priority: low    
Version: 7.0CC: amsharma, nhosoi, rmeggins, spichugi
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Fixed In Version: 389-ds-base-1.3.3.1-1.el7 Doc Type: Enhancement
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Feature: Support for gzip, bzip2, and xz compressed files, based on the file extension (.gz, .bz2, .xz) has been added to the access log analysis utility logconv.pl. This also adds support for TAR archives and compressed TAR archives - any file ending in .tar, .tar.bz2, .tar.gz, .tar.xz, .tgz, .tbz, and .txz.
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Description Nathan Kinder 2013-12-17 21:48:22 UTC
This bug is created as a clone of upstream ticket:
https://fedorahosted.org/389/ticket/381

Non-active log files (access, error, audit) which are timestamped should be gzipped.  Files should end in .gz extension.  logconv.pl needs to recognize these files and decompress on the fly.

Comment 3 Rich Megginson 2014-10-23 22:47:49 UTC
This should be added to the logconv.pl tests

logconv.pl can read from a compressed file or a compressed tar archive.  For example:

$ ls /var/log/dirsrv/slapd-host
access			audit		    errors.20140917-124602
access.20140917-124603	audit.rotationinfo  errors.rotationinfo
access.rotationinfo	errors
$ cd /var/log/dirsrv/slapd-host
$ tar cfj access.tar.bz2 access access.20*
$ ls access.tar.bz2
access.tar.bz2
$ logconv.pl access.tar.bz2
reading .....
....
logconv report
...

The detection is based on the filename.  If the filename ends in .tar, logconv.pl will assume it is an uncompressed tar archive file.  If the filename ends with.tar.bz2 or .tar.gz or .tar.xz or .tgz or .tbz or .txz, logconv.pl will assume it is a compressed tar archive (gz for gzip, bz or bz2 for bzip2, xz for xz).  If the filename ends with .gz or .bz2 or .xz (not preceeded by .tar), logconv.pl will assume is a compressed plain file.

Comment 4 Amita Sharma 2014-12-29 10:59:23 UTC
[root@dhcp201-126 ~]# logconv.pl access.tar.bz2
Access Log Analyzer 8.1
Command: logconv.pl access.tar.bz2
Processing 1 Access Log(s)...

[001] access.tar.bz2                	size (bytes):           46
There was no logging to process, exiting...
Cleaning up temp files...
Done.

Hence marking as VERIFIED.

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2015-03-05 09:32:39 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0416.html