On 2010-03-09 at 11:03, stupidmail4me <stupidmail4me@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello all, > > I have several virtual hosts piping their log files to rotatelogs. For various reasons I have two virtual hosts piping to the same log file: > <VirtualHost 1.2.3.4> > CustomLog "|/usr/sbin/rotatelogs /logs/site/access_log.%U-%Y 604800" combined > </VirtualHost> > <VirtualHost 1.2.3.5> > CustomLog "|/usr/sbin/rotatelogs /logs/site/access_log.%U-%Y 604800" combined > </VirtualHost> > > In this case there are understandably two processes of rotatelogs running: > .../usr/sbin/rotatelogs /logs/access_log.%U-%Y 604800 > .../usr/sbin/rotatelogs /logs/access_log.%U-%Y 604800 > > Is this setup going to cause any unintended consequences? Yes. > I'm thinking it might run into a couple of problems but the man page > and the web doesn't have a real answer. Well, if the doc tried to list all the things people might try that wouldn't work, it would get awfully long. Nevertheless, if you look at <http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/en/stopping.html> you'll see this: Multiple running instances of rotatelogs attempting to rotate the same logfiles at the same time may destroy each other's logfiles. Dan --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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