Re: Rotating logs

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On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 11:18:12 +0200,
Over K. <overk@ofir.dk> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm running Apache 1.3.26 and using an obsolete program to rotate my
> log-files. It's giving a lot of trouble and I'm looking for a new way to
> have these log-files rotated. Does anyone have a good idea?
>

logrotate.


jim@grendel:~$ apt-cache show logrotate
Package: logrotate
Priority: important
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 132
Maintainer: Paul Martin <pm@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 3.6.5-2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.5-13), libpopt0 (>= 1.6.4), cron (>= 3.0pl1-53) | anacron, base-passwd (>= 2.0.3.4)
Recommends: mailx
Filename: pool/main/l/logrotate/logrotate_3.6.5-2_i386.deb
Size: 27932
MD5sum: 6e155c4091b300bf93a2e6073870f3f5
Description: Log rotation utility
The logrotate utility is designed to simplify the administration of
log files on a system which generates a lot of log files. Logrotate
allows for the automatic rotation compression, removal and mailing of
log files. Logrotate can be set to handle a log file daily, weekly,
monthly or when the log file gets to a certain size. Normally, logrotate
runs as a daily cron job.


If you are using debian, piece of cake, I doubt it's too difficult to
set up with Redhat et al either. Works great, remember to restart apache
(gracefully) to make it write to the new logfile. My apache rotate file
looks something like this.

#Changed rotation to daily, log's too big to do weekly.
daily
# Save 10 logs
rotate 10
# touch the newfile for apache to write to
create
# compress the old logs
compress

/usr/local/apache/logs/access_log {
missingok
postrotate
/usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl graceful
endscript
}

/usr/local/apache/logs/error_log {
missingok
postrotate
/usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl graceful
endscript
}

Pretty simple really.
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