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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 "Sun, 13 Jan 2002 01:08:55 +1100."
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On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 01:08:55 +1100, Ian Smith wrote:

>  > 	http://www.freebsddiary.org/rotatelogs.php
> 
> From what I could gather from that, adding SIGUSR1 (30) to the newsyslog
> entries will ensure graceful shutdown of any active children - right?

Yes, but a graceful shutdown means that some log entries may take a long
time to be written.  So you also have to wait quite a while after you
send your signal.

Basically, it seems that the most reliable way to handle Apache log
rotation under FreeBSD is to use the rotatelogs program supplied with
Apache.

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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