In the past I've used copy & truncate log rotate feature. Kinda racy though... some log bits might get lost between the copy & truncate parts. (on extremely loaded httpd systems) The perk is the inode number stays the same. So there is even less reason to HUP Apache. -Jon Disnard On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 9:46 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 05:48:37PM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: >> running children writing to the logs after it. So, you can't move the >> log as it still might have processes writing to it, so they do a >> HUP/restart to make sure logs are not being used before rotate. >> >> I guess we could try switching it and see if we see any issues... if we >> compress logs they could get corrupted, but if we don't they might be >> ok. > > The workaround here is to use `delaycompress` in logrotate. > > > > -- > Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > _______________________________________________ > infrastructure mailing list > infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure -- -Jon _______________________________________________ infrastructure mailing list infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure
