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Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 11:18:02 -0700
To: Jan Knepper <jan@digitaldaemon.com>
Cc: Simon <simon@optinet.com>, FreeBSD-ISP <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Log file rotation with Apache.
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Probably a bit simplistic but it has worked for me for a long time.  I just run
it out of crontab everynight at 11:59 and it doesn't touch apache.

#!/bin/sh
DATE=`date +%Y%m%d`
LOGFILES="httpd-access.log httpd-error.log
LOGDIR="/var/log"

for i in $LOGFILES
do
cp /$LOGDIR/$i /$LOGDIR/$i.$DATE
>/$LOGDIR/$i
/usr/bin/gzip /$LOGDIR/$i.$DATE
done

Of course you can build on this.:-)

ed
Quoting Jan Knepper <jan@digitaldaemon.com>:

> Well what I want to solve is the size of the log files.
> What I remember from the Webalizer docco is that it will scan .gz log
> files.
> I run Apache and Webalizer on the same .log files and have not seen any 
> problems with that yet.
> 
> What my current problem is is that I would like to rotate the apache log 
> files without having to touch apache.
> 
> Jan
> 
> 
> 
> Simon wrote:
> 
> > What we do is rename *.log to *.log.resolve, restart apache, run webalizer
> on *.log.resolve.
> > 
> > -Simon
> > 
> > On Tue, 29 May 2001 13:05:32 -0400, Jan Knepper wrote:
> > 
> >> Hi!
> >> 
> >> Does any of you know about a "clean" way to do log file for Apache 
> >> without disrupting webalizer?
> >> 
> >> I have tried to just run newsyslog on them as I would like this best, 
> >> but Apache seems to stop logging after the first trim. I know I can 
> >> reset Apache with a "kill -1", but don't think that's exactly the way I 
> >> would like to resolve that problem.
> >> 
> >> Thanks!
> >> Jan
> >> 
> >> 
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