Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:36:02 +0930 From: Tim Aslat <tim@spyderweb.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newsyslog and apache Message-ID: <20040423123602.0152baa1@bofh.spyderweb.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20040423025219.M5326@enabled.com> References: <20040322110622.M15380@enabled.com> <20040322115421.GB82093@users.munk.nu> <20040423025219.M5326@enabled.com>
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In the immortal words of "Noah" <admin2@enabled.com>...
> this advice does not give me many warm fuzzies - the website appears
> to be down. any other util recommendations that rotate hundreds of
> apache logs files really well. newsyslog is not meeting our
> requirements at the moment.
Have you tried using the internal rotation code in apache?
this excerpt from "man rotatelogs" should provide more information
rotatelogs is a simple program for use in conjunction with
Apache's piped logfile feature which can be used like this:
TransferLog "| rotatelogs /path/to/logs/access_log 86400"
This creates the files /path/to/logs/access_log.nnnn where nnnn
is the system time at which the log nominally starts (this time
will always be a multiple of the rotation time, so you can
synchronize cron scripts with it). At the end of each rotation
time (here after 24 hours) a new log is started.
Logging is internal to apache, and doesn't require apache to be
restarted.
Hope this helps
Cheers
Tim
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Tim Aslat <tim@spyderweb.com.au>
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