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From: Jez Hancock <jez.hancock@munk.nu>
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Subject: Re: var partition is too small
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On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:00:43AM -0500, Redmond Militante wrote:
> hi all
> 
> the var partition on my apache box may be too small.
> this is a problem because - 
> i originally had newsyslog set at
> 
> /var/log/httpd-access.log               644  7     100  24    B /var/run/httpd.pid 30
fwiw I have the following entry in /etc/crontab:

0   *   *   *   *   root    /home/munk/bin/sh/newsyslog.sh

where that script reads:

#!/bin/sh
YEAR=`date "+%Y"`
ROTATE_DIR=/home/munk/backup/log/$YEAR

if [ ! -d $ROTATE_DIR ]
then
	mkdir $ROTATE_DIR
fi

/usr/sbin/newsyslog -a $ROTATE_DIR

/usr/sbin/chown -R root:wheel $ROTATE_DIR \
&& /bin/chmod -R 750 $ROTATE_DIR

so the logfiles get rotated out into /home/munk/backup/log/$YEAR with
whatever compression/triggers are setup in /etc/newsyslog.conf.


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Jez Hancock
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