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Date:      Tue, 16 Mar 1999 00:39:39 -0600
From:      Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com>
To:        George Vagner <kf7nn1@cybertrails.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: apache 
Message-ID:  <19990316063939.CD9A461@woodstock.monkey.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 15 Mar 1999 21:52:50 GMT." <36ED8132.505A53AF@cybertrails.com> 

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In message <36ED8132.505A53AF@cybertrails.com>, George Vagner wrote:
} in my newsyslog i turn over the "access.log" file
} for apache but it doesnt continue to write to it unless
} i reboot the system.

Please see http://www.apache.org/docs/misc/howto.html#logreset for a 
brief description of how to rotate Apache's log files.  The original file
will keep getting written to if you don't send Apache a signal to tell
it to re-open the logfile(s) - that is, the one you rotated out of the
way is still being written to.

You can have newsyslog do this for you by using

     path_to_pid_file
             This optional field specifies the file name to read to find the
             daemon process id.  If this field is present, a signal_number is
             sent the process id contained in this file.  This field must
             start with "/" in order to be recognized properly.

In your case, you'd use the path to Apache's pid file.  See the newsyslog(8) 
man page for further details.

-- 
   Jon Hamilton  
   hamilton@pobox.com



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