Matt Gibson

Here’s a quick shot of our little mini datacenter..

Tonight we decided we’d had enough of VMWare Server 2.0’s issues and shakiness. We started getting the following error, because as it turns out (we’re stupid for not thinking of this ahead of time – lesson learned) VMWare server beta’s have an expiry date, along with it’s bugs. Today we started getting this error:

“VCommand error: [...]

Here’s a little howto on merging multiple apache log files when you are migrating servers or want to consolidate your logs into one place. This works on ubuntu and debian, but your mileage may vary on other OS’s.
Here’s the howto:

Login to old server
scp old log files over, to the admin home directory, in /logs
# scp [...]