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From: Ying-Chieh Liao <ijliao@csie.nctu.edu.tw>
To: Jorge Biquez <jbiquez@icsmx.com>
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Subject: Re: Newsyslog for rotating APACHE logs
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On ¤é ,  12 31, 2000 at 15:38:30 -0600, Jorge Biquez wrote:
> I'm still on the rotation files. I wanted to try newsyslog before going for 
> the scripts paths since seems could be simpler.
> This is what I have on the newsyslog.conf file:
> # logfilename           owner.group     mode count size time [ZB] 
> [/pid_file] [sig_num]
> /var/log/maillog                        664  7     *    24    Z
> /var/log/sendmail.st                    664  10    *    168   B
> /usr/home/sites/logsite01txt            664  9     *    1503  B
> since I wanted that the file rotated at the 15:03 hours.
> On the contrab file I have this:
> #
> #minute hour    mday    month   wday    who     command
> 04      15       *       *       *       root    newsyslog
> 05      15       *       *       *       root    killall -HUP httpd
> But it is not working. I checked the permission and that's not the problem.
> Any suggestions, comments or ideas?.
> Thanks in advance,

why not use

newsyslog.conf:

/usr/home/sites/logsite01txt            664  9     *    1503  B		/path/to/httpd.pid

and you dont have to add "killall -HUP httpd" in your crontab
-- 
The sooner you start to code, the longer the program will take.
					--- Roy Carlson


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