Task One :: Setup a client to access the S3 bucket and retrieve the logs.

Attempt One :: Jungle Disk. A tool for the Mac with GUI implementation that mounts the S3 as a drive. Sounds cool, easy to install and setup, detects the buckets, but the mounted drive is empty. I would wait, expecting it to load the information, but my firewall told me it wasn't exchanging any information with the S3 server and that was that.

Attempt Two :: Now I went for the S3Sync.rb and s3cmd.rb. Two ruby scripts that are acclaimed to be the solution. I setup the yml file with the keys to accessing the bucket and place it in the required location. I run the script and "Environment is not set up". I go over the read me again and sure enough I had missed something; there were two pre-requisites, Ruby and Open-SSL library for ruby. I had ruby of course, but not the Open-SSL library. So I go and look for it and guess what, it doesn't exist O_o. There are only eassl and jruby-openssl.

I don't want to switch to another tool for a few reasons. One, this was recommended by the folks at CC, so I know this works with their setup. Two, each tool interacts with S3 in a different way and other tools may / may not work even if I set them up properly. Three come on, this is ruby, something I am familiar with, and it looks fairly easy to use, if only I can get hold of that dependency.

I'll read up on some posts I came across earlier where people said they were using S3 ... maybe there are some description of the setup there. If I find nothing, back to the IRC.

That's all for now.