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Date:      Fri, 25 Nov 2005 07:11:51 -0500
From:      Luke Hollins <lwh@pathcom.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Rotating web server logs without restarting Apache
Message-ID:  <4386FF87.9070506@pathcom.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).
>
>  
>
If you send it kill -USR1 instead of restarting it, it will close and 
re-open the logfile(s).

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