Here you go. Be sure to adjust the path of the script and the logs to your 
server configuration.


> Create a new file:
> nano /etc/init.d/ape/ape-clean-log.sh
> 
> Put this code in the script file. Change the log file location to match your 
> server configuration. BE CAREFULL, the line of code to delete the old log 
> will delete everything in the folder. That's why I put all my logs in a "APE" 
> directory.
> #!/bin/bash
>  
> #Copy the current log to a new file. Add the current date to the new file name
> cp /var/log/ape/ape.log /var/log/ape/ape_$(date +%d%m%y).log
>  
> #Empty the content of the main log file
> echo "" > /var/log/ape/ape.log
>  
> # Delete the log files. Find all the file created more than 14 days ago and 
> delete them
> find /var/log/ape/ -type f -mtime +14 | xargs -r rm
> 
> Give permission to the new file
> chmod +x /etc/init.d/ape/ape-clean-log.sh
> 
> Edit crontab
> crontab -e
> 
> Code for crontab. Adjust the number (0) if you want the script to execute at 
> another time than midnight everynight
> 0 0 * * * /etc/init.d/ape/ape-clean-log > /dev/null

I didn't test overnight, but I know the line to delete the old file works as 
I'm using the same code to manage and move old MySQL Backups.


  - Louis

Le 2012-09-17 à 08:55, Nicolas Guibert <[email protected]> a écrit :

> Great. Why not share the few lines of code here?
> 
> Thanks for your time and effort Louis.
> 
> 
> 2012/9/17 Louis Charette <[email protected]>
> I just tried what I suggested, and it does seems to work. Ape still write in 
> the original ape.log file and the previous content is store in another file. 
> I also added in my crontab something to get rid of the old files (> 14 days).
> 
>   - Louis
> 
> Le 2012-09-17 à 07:29, Nicolas Guibert <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
>> lol
>> 
>> 
>> 2012/9/17 Louis Charette <[email protected]>
>> No but I should, last time I check the log was pretty big lol. 
>> 
>> Envoyé de mon iPhone
>> 
>> Le 2012-09-17 à 07:16, Nicolas Guibert <[email protected]> a écrit :
>> 
>>> Yes that sounds like a good idea Louis. Many thanks. I will try that and 
>>> come back here to confirm that it worked.
>>> 
>>> Are you using this Louis?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 2012/9/17 Louis Charette <[email protected]>
>>> Duplicate the file ape is using (copy/paste) and empty the main file after 
>>> (echo "" > /var/log/ape.log) ?
>>> 
>>> Envoyé de mon iPad
>>> 
>>> Le 2012-09-17 à 07:03, Nicolas Guibert <[email protected]> a écrit 
>>> :
>>> 
>>>> Pablo,
>>>> 
>>>> I have tried renaming the APE log file manually and seen with my eyes that 
>>>> APE was still logging in the renamed file... Not opening a new file with 
>>>> the old name. Which means my renaming was useless.
>>>> 
>>>> Do you see the problem?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 2012/9/17 Pablo Tejada <[email protected]>
>>>> Like i said in my other post, you can go back to using the file log method 
>>>> and avoid that the file gets bigger with a cron job. For example you can 
>>>> add a job that runs every 24 hours that would rename the ape.log file to 
>>>> something like YYYY-MM-DD_HHHH.log
>>>> Ex: 2012-09-17_1301.log
>>>> 
>>>> On Sep 17, 2012 4:12 AM, "Nicolas Guibert" <[email protected]> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>> Hi Pablo,
>>>> 
>>>> Many thanks for your reply.
>>>> 
>>>> The problem with the standard file logging implementation is that log 
>>>> rotation does not work. My understanding is that the file is not closed 
>>>> and reopened when rotated. The file that is open by APE changes its name 
>>>> from log.txt to log.txt.1 then it becomes log.txt.2, etc. So the file 
>>>> keeps getting bigger and bigger. This makes it very difficult to use the 
>>>> logs when needed as I only have one huge file and not one per day as I 
>>>> would like. 
>>>> 
>>>> That's why I tried syslog but that does not seem to help much as the 
>>>> memory used by APE gets bigger and bigger until obviously APE crashes... I 
>>>> would much prefer if I did not need to restart APE every few days.
>>>> 
>>>> I am not sure what version I am using, but it is very likely that it is 
>>>> the one that I mentionned in earlier posts, the one that was working fine 
>>>> with Mysql (1.0.8 maybe or some version with an 8 in any case). I have not 
>>>> updated lately for fear the Mysql would stop working. I have seen several 
>>>> threads on this issue so am not really keen on spending time dealing with 
>>>> Mysql again.
>>>> 
>>>> Again many thanks. What do you think of this? Am I missing something?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 2012/9/14 Pablo Tejada <[email protected]>
>>>> If you want to go back to the standard file logging implementation. You 
>>>> can add a proper file rotation with a cron job. BTW which APE server build 
>>>> are you using?
>>>> 
>>>> On Sep 14, 2012 2:56 AM, "Nicolas" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Hi, 
>>>> 
>>>> I have recently switched to syslog for my logs. It is great since I now 
>>>> have a proper log rotation (which was not possible with the standard file 
>>>> logging implementation)
>>>> 
>>>> The problem is that I can see my aped process getting bigger and bigger. 
>>>> It looks that it is taking the exact same size as the logs.
>>>> 
>>>> After one day of running my program, I already have 192m in Virt memory 
>>>> and 152 in Res.
>>>> 
>>>> Not surprizingly my process crashed yesterday morning after a few days...
>>>> 
>>>> Anything that can avoid that problem? It would be a shame to reload aped 
>>>> every day for that...
>>>> 
>>>> Nicolas.
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