Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2013 23:04:53 -0400 From: mikel king <mikel.king@olivent.com> To: Frank Leonhardt <freebsd-doc@fjl.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Archiving a log file Message-ID: <37485629-94BD-48EF-B7A7-9ED4C5B9A6E5@olivent.com> In-Reply-To: <51FD8E19.90403@fjl.co.uk> References: <51FD8E19.90403@fjl.co.uk>
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On Aug 3, 2013, at 7:11 PM, Frank Leonhardt <freebsd-doc@fjl.co.uk> wrote:
> The answer isn't (AFAIK) newsy slog
>
I did some more digging on the whole log piping thing and apache includes a nifty little application called rotatelogs which lives in /usr/local/sbin/rotatelogs on my system that I built form the ports. From the man page:
NAME
rotatelogs - Piped logging program to rotate Apache logs
SYNOPSIS
rotatelogs [ -l ] [ -f ] logfile rotationtime|filesizeM [ offset ]
SUMMARY
rotatelogs is a simple program for use in conjunction with Apache's piped logfile feature. It supports rotation based on a time interval or maximum size of the log.
It looks pretty simple to use just create your log format directive like:
LogFormat "%t \"%r\" %>s \"%{Referer}i\" %b" SpecialFormat
CustomLog "| /usr/local/sbin/rotatelogs /var/log/httpd-access.log 86400" SpecialFormat
I hope that helps. I know I shall be experimenting with this one tomorrow.
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