Re: log roatation / delete for virtual domains

André Warnier <aw@xxxxxxxxxx> · Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:56:41 +0200

Or you could change your log rotation system altogether, and use 

logrotate if your OS has it.

The general idea is : you dom't use rotatelogs, you write the logs 

normally to a file.

With cron, you regularly run logrotate, as often as you want.

It has a configuration file that tells it which files to rotate, how 

often, in function of which criteria, what to do before and after the 

rotation, how many "back-copies" to keep before starting to overwrite 

them etc..  It does this cleanly and without necessarily interrupting 

the process whose files it is rotating.

"man logrotate" under Linux is pretty explicit.

Ben Ricker wrote:

Rotatelogs, as far as I know, does not delete logs. It merely rotates 

them. If you want to delete for size, you could do some fancy work with 

'ls', cut out the size, compare it to a specific number you want, and 

then delete it if it is over that size.

That seems kludgy though. What I do is use find on the directory and use 

-ctime +N where 'N' is the number of days you want logs to stick around. 

Then you can pipe it through |xargs rm -f. This will delete any logs 

that have been around since N days after creation.

--Thanks,

Ben Ricker

--------------

I use my cat's name for a password: he is called zo4W*!@n32G+ and I 

change his name every 60 days.

On Jun 5, 2008, at 1:01 AM, Agnello George wrote:

HI

I have atleast 20 virtual host on my Apache ( 2.2.8 ) server and am 

having a difficulty in deleting the logs after it reaches a certain 

limit.

my vhost directive look something like this :
<VirtualHost 192.168.0.244:80>
ServerAdmin admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ServerName agnello.sys.qualiproj.qualispace.com
ServerAlias www.agnello.sys.qualiproj.qualispace.com
DocumentRoot /websites/agnello.com/web
ErrorLog /websites/agnello.com/logs/agnello.sys.qualiproj.error_log

CustomLog /websites/agnello.com/logs/agnello.sys.qualiproj.access_log 

combined

TransferLog "|/usr/local/apache2/bin/rotatelogs 

/websites/agnello.com/logs/agnello.sys.qualiproj.access_log 5M"

TransferLog "|/usr/local/apache2/bin/rotatelogs 

/websites/agnello.com/logs/agnello.sys.qualiproj.error_log 5M"

</VirtualHost>

Is it possible to delete the logs ( with Apache's rotatelog command ) 

after the log file  reaches a certain size limit.

thanks

--Regards
Agnello Dsouza
www.linux-vashi.blogspot.com

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