Re: Rotating logs

[Nerius Landys <nlandys@xxxxxxxxx>]

There are other ways to rotate Apache logs, too.  For example, on my FreeBSD systems, there is something called newsyslog present at the operating system level.  There is a file named /etc/newsyslog.conf that has the following lines on my system (I edited the file and added these lines):

# logfilename          [owner:group]    mode count size when  flags [/pid_file] [sig_num]
/var/log/httpd-access.log               644  10    1000 *     J     /var/run/httpd.pid    30
/var/log/httpd-error.log                644  10    1000 *     J     /var/run/httpd.pid    30

The signal 30 on FreeBSD is SIGUSR1.  SIGUSR1 is what you send to Apache to close the current log and start a new one, or something like that.  SIGUSR1 is probably a different number on your Linux system.  Anyhow, the entries above in newsyslog on my system make everything work perfectly.  Logs are rotated, archived, and removed after there are too many archived logs.

I prefer rotating logs with newsyslog.