From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 15 22: 9:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from inet.chip-web.com (c1003518-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.1.82.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7CAEC14DE5 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 22:09:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ludwigp@bigfoot.com) Received: (qmail 21434 invoked from network); 16 Mar 1999 06:09:25 -0000 Received: from speedy.chip-web.com (HELO speedy) (172.16.1.1) by inet.chip-web.com with SMTP; 16 Mar 1999 06:09:25 -0000 Message-Id: <4.1.19990315220728.00ab23a0@mail-r> X-Sender: ludwigp2@mail-r X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 22:08:38 -0800 To: , George Vagner From: Ludwig Pummer Subject: Re: apache Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <36ED8132.505A53AF@cybertrails.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 08:58 PM 3/15/99 , unknown@riverstyx.net wrote: >depends on what yer doing to turn it over. you've got to either use >something like logrotate, or else flush it with something like "echo -n > >access.log" 'coz apache'll hold on to that inode and keep on writing to >it, even after it's "deleted". IIRC, the apache docs specifically say that you have to send some signal to it when you change its log file, because it remembers where it last wrote, and it writes to that spot in the same file again. --Ludwig Pummer ( ludwigp@bigfoot.com ) ICQ UIN: 692441 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message