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Date:      Thu, 28 Apr 2005 10:32:08 -0500
From:      Greg Barniskis <nalists@scls.lib.wi.us>
To:        Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Apache rewrite log and newsyslog.conf
Message-ID:  <427101F8.8000509@scls.lib.wi.us>
In-Reply-To: <0716285D22868BA8E423A522@utd49554.utdallas.edu>
References:  <0716285D22868BA8E423A522@utd49554.utdallas.edu>

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Paul Schmehl wrote:
> I maintain a small hobby website for some friends.  I use mod_rewrite, 
> and apache logs all rewrites to /var/log/httpd/rewrite_log.  The log 
> gets very large and files up /var, so I added it to newsyslog.conf:
> 
> /var/log/httpd-access.log               640  5     *    $W0D0 Z
> /var/log/httpd-error.log                640  5     *    $W0D0 Z
> /var/log/httpd/rewrite.log              640  5     *    $W0D0 Z
> 
> As you can see, the newsyslog.conf settings are identical to the 
> httpd-access.log and the httpd-error.log.  Both of those logs are 
> rotated daily and only five gzipped backup copies are maintained.
> 
> For some reason, the rewrite_log never gets turned over.  Has anyone 
> seen this problem?  What might I be doing wrong?

is it really httpd/rewrite.log or is that a typo for httpd-rewrite.log?

if the file really is in its own subdirectory, permissions on that 
dir? tried keeping the file in /var/log proper instead for real 
parity with the other httpd log configs?


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