On 8/16/06, siegfried <siegfried@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've been studying http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/programs/rotatelogs.html and feel quite confused. I'm running windows server XP 2003. (1) Is rotate logs exclusively for httpd or can I use it for my cygwin/cron/perl jobs that run nightly and generate large log files? (2) In the documentation they say "CustomLog" and "ErrorLog". Are these commands I type in at the cygwin/bash command prompt? I get errors when I do. I don't see any such programs in /program files/apache group/apache2/bin. (3) Assuming the answer to #1 is that I can use it for my perl/cron jobs: how would I rotate my log files every 48 hours? Would I create a cron job to run once a day to run rotatelogs?
2 has been answered. The answer to 1 is that rotatelogs is httpd-specific. It is used only as a piped-logging program that accepts log entries on standard input. It is not called from the command line. It could be used for other programs that have the capability of logging through a pipe to a program, but I don't believe that is common. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
|