Hi Justin, Thanks for the reply. FYI I am using UNIX (freebsd). Up tp this point, I have been using an sh script to rotate logs.The logs in question are the access_log and error_log in each one of my (Apache) virtual hosts.
logrotate looks like the cats meow!I have read the man page and it states to use wildcards with caution (as always). So I have one question:
Can I use a wildcard as such, /home/*/logs/access_log /home/*/logs/error_log The '*' being the wildcard to denote the home dir for virt_domain1.com virt_domain2.ca virt_domain3.net ... -Grant----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin Pasher" <justinp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 10:18 PM Subject: RE: Logs
-----Original Message----- From: Grant Peel [mailto:gpeel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 6:54 PM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Logs Hi all, I am investigating useing apache rotatelogs pipe. My servers have about 250 virtual domains each on them, so I am curious about a couple of things:How are people in a similar setup handling remove logs (so they dont buildup forever), say after 2 months? Does piping the data through the rotatelogs util slow down the server much?Have you considered using logrotate? I had never actually heard of rotatelogs until now (my apache experience is primarily with Apache 1). I would imagine that it would have a little bit of overhead (albeit a relatively small amount, I hope). logrotate has a lot more optionsavailable, and there's also a chance that it's already in use on your systemto rotate system logs in /var/log. Since it's run as a cron job, you only experience the overheard (VERY small) when the script run each night Of course, all of this assumes you are running in a *nix environment as opposed to Windows. I'm not sure about the availability on Windows. -- Justin Pasher --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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