Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 14:21:04 -0600 (CST) From: Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com> To: Curtis Jewell <swordsman@csjewell.fastmail.us> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Apache log rotation question... Message-ID: <20061103142033.X13832@bravo.pjkh.com> In-Reply-To: <20061104043357.S4041@lap.curtisjewell.boldlygoingnowhere.org> References: <20061104043357.S4041@lap.curtisjewell.boldlygoingnowhere.org>
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> I'm wondering if I can safely use newsyslog with a newsyslog.conf with these > lines in it: I don't know the answer to your question, but you might look at cronolog... http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/sysutils/cronolog/pkg-descr > > /var/log/httpd/access_log/* 644 1 * $W0D0 G > /var/log/httpd/error_log/* 644 1 * $W0D0 G > /var/log/httpd/ssl_request.log 644 1 * $W0D0 > /var/log/httpd/error.log 644 1 * $W0D0 > # After this point should be one line... > /var/log/httpd/access.log 644 1 * $W0D0 - > /var/run/httpd.pid 30 > > or if not, what should I do instead? > > (I have 4 separate vhosts that keep their access logs in the first 2 > directories) > > For the record, I want weekly rotation on Sundays at midnight (I assume JST, > since I have my time set to local time, which is JST [GMT+9, no DST]), > keeping 1 log, (the way I read the fine manuals, I'll have to have a cron job > bzip2 it up later and move it aside if I want to keep more and/or compress > them) permissions 644 with the owner being root:wheel, no size check, and the > last part of the last line should send a SIGUSR1 (30) signal to Apache, which > should do the equivalent of a 'apachectl -k graceful' per > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/stopping.html. > > My question really is, does newsyslog send the signal at the right time > [after the rotation is done, per > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/logs.html#rotation] and does it do the lines > in order???) > > - --Curtis > > - -- Curtis Jewell > swordsman@csjewell.fastmail.us > > "Killed enough? ... Yes, Your Highness, I think we all have." > --John Patrick Ryan (from 'The Sum Of All Fears', Tom Clancy) > > [I use Pine, which deliberately does not display colors and pictures > in HTML mail] > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) > > iD8DBQFFS6ByvCi+150VKIMRAs6PAKDOOvnARxXKUTY5dvNrob3gl9+aZACdG+P+ > Uz0GrVe1p5MNuRPwiTbBXxY= > =lTB2 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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