Re: [CentOS] Sort logfiles at rotation time

Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote on Mon, 9 Nov 2009 16:45:35 +0000:

Because within apache, you can't necessarily guarantees strict chronological order of log entries. If, for example, php takes a couple of seconds to run, the request could come a couple of seconds before the log entry is written

Is it possible that everyone misunderstood your question? You want to sort the *content* of the log files, so the content is in chronological order? I do not see much value in this. Commonly used log reporting tools are able to cope with limited "displacements" in time. I don't know anybody who cares about that. But you may try mergelog for this purpose. http://mergelog.sourceforge.net/

Kai