Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 04:49:14 +0000 From: Cary <cary@SDF.ORG> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: file receives no input after turn over by newsyslog(8) Message-ID: <20160510044913.GA963@SDF.ORG> In-Reply-To: <278899ea-8fc0-4898-2e38-0bca2009e45f@ssimicro.com> References: <20160509222703.GA2794@SDF.ORG> <278899ea-8fc0-4898-2e38-0bca2009e45f@ssimicro.com>
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On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 06:20:00PM -0600, markham breitbach wrote: > The problem here is that httpd opens a file handle and keeps it open for > the log, so after it is rotated, the file handle follows the old file. > (you should still see entries showing up in the log.0). > > There are many articles written about this, but the idea is you need to > send apache a signal to release the file handle and start writing to the > new log. This is the first page that comes up in google: > > http://mikkel.hoegh.org/2009/10/08/rotating-apache-httpd-logfiles-freebsd/ > > -M > > On 2016-05-09 4:27 PM, Cary wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Perhaps someone might be able to help. > > The /var/log/httpd-access.log file is turned over at least > > once a week on a VPS running 10.2-Stable. > > > > /var/log/httpd-*.log 644 10 500 * GX > > > > is the line I have in /etc/newsyslog.conf. > > After doing some more reading I found how the configuration in newsyslog.conf could be modified to send a signal 30 to the server process. /var/log/httpd-*.log 644 10 500 * GX /var/run/httpd.pid 30 Thank you for your replies Cody and Markham. Cary
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