Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:52:06 -0300 From: Agus <agus.262@gmail.com> To: "David Robillard" <david.robillard@gmail.com> Cc: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Valerio Daelli <valerio.daelli@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Vsftpd rotate logs with newsyslog... Message-ID: <fda61bb50806192152j109e9eb2mf6268decbc6e9592@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <fda61bb50806192110l1b29be6bta1122c2bfd0066a2@mail.gmail.com> References: <226ae0c60806180829i30a79975l40aaf42184af78dd@mail.gmail.com> <20080619073536.GA99679@ei.bzerk.org> <226ae0c60806190533s3863949am188a579802cdf81b@mail.gmail.com> <fda61bb50806192110l1b29be6bta1122c2bfd0066a2@mail.gmail.com>
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2008/6/20 Agus <agus.262@gmail.com>: > 2008/6/19 David Robillard <david.robillard@gmail.com>: > >> > Well yes, this is precisely the reason why we use a SIGHUP (equivalent >> to >> > "apachectl restart") instead of a SIGUSR1 (apachectl graceful). We don't >> > really care about a few broken client connections since the logs are >> rotated >> > at a quiet time. >> > >> > Of course, YMMV. >> >> Yes, of course :) >> >> > regards, >> > Ruben >> >> Cheers, >> >> DA+ >> -- >> David Robillard >> UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA >> CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator >> Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 >> > > > Thank u all very much guys....i will see if i do a graceful or simply a > restart cause i dont think the apache will be getting too many connections > all the time....but that clarifications was quite good David....and thank u > for the example....that is always the best way to understand things...much > appreciated... > > Will try both....just a question about compression...What i understood from > your mail is that as apache takes some time to let his children close all > connections i shouldn zip those logs cause, newsyslog wont wait till apache > finishes and probably will xip logs that are still being access by the > children? if htat is the case using a HUP will close all and allow me to use > compresion? > > Cheers, > Agustin > Sorry guys...got one more doubt....Why do u use B (binary) if apache logs are simple text? any particular reason? Thanks
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