From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 4 20:28: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from indigo.quadrant.net (indigo.quadrant.net [207.195.92.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26DF237B416 for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 20:28:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from git2000 (h24-71-180-125.ss.shawcable.net [24.71.180.125]) by indigo.quadrant.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id WAA15975; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 22:27:36 -0600 (CST) From: "Scott Gerhardt" To: "Ryan Thompson" , "brain_damaged" Cc: Subject: RE: httpd log files big Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 22:38:58 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ryan, Don't you mean Apache's "rotatelogs" instead of "logrotate"? # man rotatelogs rotatelogs(8) NAME rotatelogs - rotate Apache logs without having to kill the server ____ You could also use FreeBSD's built in newsyslog utility to rotatate the httpd log files, see Michael Lucas's article on using newsyslog http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/06/14/Big_Scary_Daemons.html?page=1 > Yes, apache includes a program called "logrotate" that does this very > nicely, so you don't have to kill the server. It's pretty simple to > implement... man 8 logrotate. > _________________________________ Scott Gerhardt, P.Geo. Gerhardt Information Technologies _________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message