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From: Alex Dyas <alex@twowaytv.co.uk>
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To: Rob Hudson <rob@euglug.net>
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Subject: Re: rotating web logs
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nice trick i've picked up is to do :

cat /dev/null > /usr/local/apache/logs/access_log

to clear out the old logs instead of bouncing the server.  saves you any
downtime and potential problems restarting apache.

alex..

On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Rob Hudson wrote:

> I just use a perl script attached to a cron job.  At the start of a
> new month, it copies the combined_log for each virtual we host to
> YYYY-MM.combined_log and restarts apache.  Pretty simple.
>
> > On 20010806.1548, Marius Kirschner said ...
> >
> > I was wondering, what do people use to rotate the apache web logs?  I
> > noticed there a "rotatelogs" command but this one doesn't work from
> the
> > command line apparenly and I'd like to schedule a cron job to do that.
> > Thanks,
> >
> > ---Marius
> >
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