HI,
how does logrotate compare to cronolog? Any ideas?
I have always thought that cronolog is the best for most situations...
Thanks,
Josef D.
On Mon, 22 May 2000, Karel Kerezman wrote:
> >Thanks for your reply - The simpler the better...OK, I think I follow
> >your suggestion. Below I have listed my appended contents of
> >/etc/cron.daily/logrotate.conf.
>
> My /etc/cron.daily/logrotate file looks like this:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> /usr/bin/analog
> /usr/bin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf
>
> The log rotation is being handled by the logrotate utility, using the params given
>in /etc/logrotate.conf, and I'm running analog right ahead of that so logs aren't "in
>transit" when I'm trying to parse data.
>
> >Could I please ask you (or anyone) to knidly check if this is alright?
> >One thing in particular, the '/sbin/killall -HUP httpd' command is given
> >as an example in the man logrotate file. Is this required??
>
> Basically what that command is doing is saying to httpd (the Apache daemon) in this
>case "Okay, let go of the files for a moment and reattach to them because you've got
>a fresh new log file to work with." The -HUP signal is designed to 'soft-restart' a
>particular process, generally used when there's been a change to its config file(s).
>
> >
> >---APPENDED TO THE BOTTOM OF LOAGROTATE.CONF---
> ># system-specific logs may be configured here
> ># Added by BC 22/5/00
>
> [snipped for space]
>
> >-----------------------------------------------
> >
> >All I then need to do is set company-domains.cfg:
> >LOGFILE /home/httpd/company-domains.net/logs/combined_log.1
> >
> >i.e. pointing to the rotated log file (which souldn't be compressed until
> >the next rotation)? If this is right, it is a very neat solution.
>
> I'm going to guess that you're dealing with virtual hosts? I freely admit that I
>have no experience in this area. I'm using only the stock access_log file that lives
>in /var/log/httpd as per the stock RedHat install. If I'm reading what you're doing
>correctly, though, it ought to work. Be prepared for someone much smarter than I am
>to offer a better suggestion, though.
>
>
> Karel P Kerezman
> Network Administrator
> Entercom Radio Portland
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