Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 13:26:07 +1100 From: Michael Vince <mv@roq.com> To: Ladislav Bodnar <distro.watch@msa.hinet.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rotating web server logs without restarting Apache Message-ID: <4386763F.9070507@roq.com> In-Reply-To: <200511250845.43542.distro.watch@msa.hinet.net> References: <200511250845.43542.distro.watch@msa.hinet.net>
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Ladislav Bodnar wrote: >Hi, > >Every time my httpd-access.log file is rotated I need to restart Apache, >otherwise it won't write into the new httpd-access.log file. > >Is there a way for Apache (version 2.0.55 on FreeBSD 6.0) to write to the >new log file without the need to restart it? I restart it routinely from a >cron job, but occasionally Apache fails to restart (or more precisely, if >fails to shutdown completely before it is told to come up again). > >Thank you very much for your help. >_______________________________________________ > > Maybe I am missing something here but can't you use rotatelogs? I use it to rotate logs every day with apache2 and I never restart Apache. Mike
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