Re: question about roatelogs -n (Apache Users)

Hi Jonny,

I'm not sure whther rotatelogs can do this. However, I usually use logrotate http://linux.die.net/man/8/logrotate and it has the ability to do this. Here's how it's setup for apache:

ubuntu@ip-172-31-11-241:~$ cat /etc/logrotate.d/apache2
/var/log/apache2/*.log {
weekly
missingok
rotate 52
compress
delaycompress
notifempty
create 640 root adm
sharedscripts
postrotate
/etc/init.d/apache2 reload > /dev/null
endscript
prerotate
if [ -d /etc/logrotate.d/httpd-prerotate ]; then \
run-parts /etc/logrotate.d/httpd-prerotate; \
fi; \
endscript
}

You can also see it's keeps access.log current and appends the number to each new one. It also separately compresses the files after a time.

ubuntu@ip-172-31-11-241:~$ ls -l /var/log/apache2/
total 75788
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 6356 Mar 31 18:29 access.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 60851094 Mar 29 06:32 access.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 2013 Jan 4 06:51 access.log.10.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 2442 Dec 28 06:29 access.log.11.gz

Hope that helps!

Kate

On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 7:42 PM, Daniel <dferradal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

2015-03-28 20:43 GMT+01:00 Jonny Rimkus <jonny@xxxxxxxxx>:

Hello,
I've a question to the rotatelogs command.
I'm using following Apache Version:

Server version: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu)
Server built: Mar 10 2015 13:05:59

I'm using the rotatelogs command in my Vhost as follows:
"|/usr/bin/rotatelogs -p /opt/bin/apacheloguser -n 3 /path/to/logfile
10M" combined

according to the man page it works as expected,
when logfile size reaches 10MB it:
1. creates a new File: logfile.1 and starts logging to this file
--> when logfile.1 reaches 10MB:
creates a new file: logfile.2 and start logging to this file

I would like to know if it is possible to make this behaviour possible:

1. rename logfile.1 to logfile.2
2. rename logfile to logfile.1
3. create new file logfile and start logging to this file

Thanks in advance and
Kind regards
Jonny Rimkus

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Logrotate from your linux distrubution will do exactly just that. Maybe that's what you want to use instead of rotatelogs.

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