[Imc-tech] Re: logging

[Daniel S. Lewart]

Zach, et al,

> stefani banerian of global tech says:
> > in addition to the seattle IMC that has been served with a court order,
> > another IMC, which uses a different server, ahs also been served - in a
> > different case.
> > the suggestion, or rather, the consideration,  of sysadmins, for the
> > time being at the very least, is not to log IP addresses (e.g. web
> > server logs).  that is a matter for your own choosing.

> Rather than make this decision myself I'd like for the tech focus
> group and/or the steering group to tell me whether or not to log IPs.

> benefits of not logging: xref seattle and the above note.
> benefits to logging: we can get rough statistics on where people are
> ...

We could run a (daily?) cron job to crunch the logs (with analog or
webalizer?) to get summary information and then delete the logs.
Technically, how can we make sure deleted files cannot be undeleted?

Cheers,
Dan