Sean Wells wrote:
What is the right way to clean apache2 logs?
Quoth david (on Monday, the 8th of August):
I use logrotate to loop through the logs daily...I generally only keep a
weeks worth or so due to size. It'll automatically remove the old ones just
fine in the end.
Thanks looks like what I need, This is just my server here at the house
for my stuff, do I need to edit anything?
# packages can drop log rotation information into this directory
include /etc/logrotate.d
notifempty
nomail
noolddir
As always, the man page to logrotate provides helpful hints. Also, the
default conf file.
interesting options in logrotate include
compress # gzips old logs
keep N # keeps N <periods> of logs
where <periods> can be specified with daily|weekly|monthly
also, the "postrotate" option, which lets you specify an action/script
to execute just after logs have been rotated, like e.g.:
postrotate
apache2ctl graceful
endscript
In Gentoo, the apache package drops a useful default file to
/etc/logrotate.d/apache2
HINT: when playing with logrotate and the compress option, and using
app-admin/sysklogd, be aware of the things in
/etc/cron.daily/syslog.cron: most of the logfiles created by syslog will
be rotated by this script, so don't include them in your logrotate
setup!
Greets,
Peter G.
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