On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 04:38:14PM -0800, Dan O'Connor wrote: > >Every time my httpd-access.log file is rotated I need to restart > >Apache, otherwise it won't write into the new httpd-access.log file. > > In /etc/newsyslog.conf: > > /var/log/httpd-access.log 644 4 100 * J > /var/run/httpd.pid 30 > /var/log/httpd-error.log 644 4 100 * J > /var/run/httpd.pid 30 > > This will signal apache to do a graceful restart following a log > rotation...
Don't compress those files in this case! For a comprehesive explanation see http://www.freebsddiary.org/rotatelogs.php but it boils down to the following: if sending SIGUSR1 to apache, not all children might have finished writing to the log files immediately, so the file might still be written to (it was not copied, but merely renamed by newsyslog) for some time (depending on the requests, client bandwidth, delays etc. this might be a few minutes for http-connections to finish). Regards, Holger Kipp alogis AG, Berlin _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
