[Imc-tech] Re: logging

[Paul Riismandel]

Per my e-mail earlier, I'd like to discuss this at tonight's meeting.  The 
steering group asked us to make a recommendation for them to consider.

--Paul

At 12:13 PM 5/9/01 -0500, Daniel S. Lewart wrote:
>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
>
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