Sean Wells wrote:
>I have the following options turned on in mine:
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>create
>compress
>notifempty
>nomail
>noolddir
>/var/log/apache2/*_log {
>daily
>rotate 7
>sharedscripts
>postrotate
>/etc/init.d/apache2 reload >/dev/null # this makes sure apache doesn't
>continue writing to the old logs
>endscript
>}
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>Sean Wells
>Network Administrator
>Data Mosaics, Inc.
>2406 S. Dishman Mica Rd. Suite 6
>Spokane Valley, WA 99206
>866.904.DMSF (phone)
>509.928.4236 (fax)
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: david [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 1:49 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Apache2 logs
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>david wrote:
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>>Sean Wells wrote:
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>>>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
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>just
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>>>fine in the end.
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>>>Sean Wells
>>>Network Administrator
>>>Data Mosaics, Inc.
>>>2406 S. Dishman Mica Rd. Suite 6
>>>Spokane Valley, WA 99206
>>>866.904.DMSF (phone)
>>>509.928.4236 (fax)
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: david [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 1:01 PM
>>>To: [email protected]
>>>Subject: [gentoo-server]
>>>
>>>What is the right way to clean apache2 logs?
>>>/var/log/apache2/access_log and error_log point to
>>>/usr/lib/apache2/logs/access_log and error_log
>>>I have been cd /usr/lib/apache2/logs
>>>rm access_log
>>>touch access_log
>>>chmod 666 access_log same for error_log
>>>I could leave error_log alone because its not very big, I do it to
>>>access_log because it is huge and webalizer complains.
>>>Should root own these logs or apache?
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>>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
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>>notifempty
>>nomail
>>noolddir
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>>Looks like I need to add this /etc/logrotate.conf after compress;
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>compress
>"/var/log/apache2/access_log" /var/log/apache2/error_log {
>rotate 5
>size 100k
>sharescripts
>postrotate
> /bin/killall -HUP apache2
>endscript
>}
>Is that right?
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Works great thanks, I just commented the
#include /etc/logrotate.d it had mysql and syslog-ng in there so
now logrotate is only looking for apache logs
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