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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>
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Subject: Re: Apache 1.3.x log rotation 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 10 Jan 2002 06:08:52 +1100."
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On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 06:08:52 +1100, Ian Smith wrote:

> The below in newsyslog.conf works fine here for both httpd and error
> logs for main and virtual hosts - Apache 1.3.3 anyway. Edited a tad: 

For some definition of "works" anyway. :-)

> Newsyslog sending SIGHUP, as above works here ..

Again, that depends on what "works" means, particularly if you use
buffered log writing.

See this article for more details:

	http://www.freebsddiary.org/rotatelogs.php

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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