Re: Apache mod-jk log rotate issue (Apache Users)

Thanks Jeff for your reply.
Is apache expected to not create new mod-jk log right on restart? Shouldn't it create file with 0 bytes on restart even if there is nothing to write at restart?
Regarding request being used to update mod jk with error, I had tried with loglevel set to INFO, I could see an entry for that same request as ERROR so I think request should be good.

Thanks

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Garg, Saman <Saman_Garg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi All,

I am trying to implement apache mod-jk logrotate using apache
"rotatelogs" program. Below is the entry that I have made in mod-jk
config file where <apache_home> and <log_location> values are correctly
specified.

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JkLogFile "|/<apache_home>/bin/rotatelogs
/<log_location>/mod_jk.log.%Y-%m-%d-%H_%M_%S 86400"
JkLogLevel error
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The problem here is after making above entries, when I do the apache
restart for the first time, it doesn't create the new mod-jk log file.
But when I change the log level to "info", it does create the mod-jk log
file.
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JkLogLevel info
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When log level was set to "error", it waits for error to happen and
should automatically create the mod-jk file at that time? Contrary to
that, I tried to send the error message to update mod-jk log, but it
still didn't create the mod-jk log.

Could somebody please help?

rotatelogs doesn't create the file until it has something to write.

Perhaps your attempt to cause mod_jk to write an error message was unsuccessful, such that rotatelogs had nothing to write.