Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 16:08:23 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: Joe Auty <joe@netmusician.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: newsyslog.conf and Apache log files Message-ID: <19630.10423.657252.744311@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <4CAE02AB.1090009@netmusician.org> References: <4CAE02AB.1090009@netmusician.org>
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Joe Auty writes: > I have the following entry for dealing with my Apache log files: > > /var/log/httpd/* 644 2 * $M1D0 GBJ > /var/run/httpd.pid 30 > > Unfortunately, this has created these big long log files such as the > following: > > httpderror_log.2.bz2.2.bz2.2.bz2.1.bz2.1.bz2.1.bz2.0.bz2 > > How can I prevent these dumb log file names from being created? My advice would be to not use syslog. It's bee a while since I fixed this problen, but I remember reading Apache has ... issues ... with rotating logs using syslog/newsyslog. Instead I use sysutils/cronolog with: ErrorLog "|/usr/local/sbin/cronolog /var/log/httpd-errors.%Y-%m.log" TransferLog "|/usr/local/sbin/cronolog /var/log/httpd-access.%Y-%m.log" in httpd.conf. This gets me: -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 11504 Dec 28 2009 httpd-access.2009-12.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 6380 Feb 3 2010 httpd-access.2010-02.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1390 Mar 11 2010 httpd-access.2010-03.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1439 Apr 23 16:06 httpd-access.2010-04.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 904451 May 30 10:52 httpd-access.2010-05.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 20279 Jun 29 12:29 httpd-access.2010-06.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1586153 Jul 28 07:50 httpd-access.2010-07.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 164305 Aug 31 18:51 httpd-access.2010-08.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 14294 Sep 9 08:19 httpd-access.2010-09.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3093989 Sep 9 08:19 httpd-access.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 71655 Oct 7 2009 httpd-error.log -rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 3574 Oct 7 2009 httpd-errors.2009-10.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1827 Nov 30 2009 httpd-errors.2009-11.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1827 Jan 17 2010 httpd-errors.2010-01.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5027 Feb 3 2010 httpd-errors.2010-02.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 10562 Mar 25 2010 httpd-errors.2010-03.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5471 Apr 23 16:05 httpd-errors.2010-04.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 332035 May 30 10:52 httpd-errors.2010-05.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 10817 Jun 29 12:29 httpd-errors.2010-06.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 569109 Jul 28 07:50 httpd-errors.2010-07.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 59928 Aug 31 18:51 httpd-errors.2010-08.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5198 Sep 9 08:19 httpd-errors.2010-09.log in /var/log. Robert Huff
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