Am 03.08.2011 18:40, schrieb Michael Mol: > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Jarry <[email protected]> wrote: >> But is it actually necessary to do it? I mean everything between >> postrotate-endscript is done after the log file has been rotated. > > The log file has been moved, but Apache still holds open the file > descriptor to the old log file--it will continue writing to that file, > even under its new name. > >> So I do not understand why at that time apache must be reloaded. > > The reload causes Apache to close the file descriptor, and then open > the file again. Since it *opens* the file by name, it will start with > a fresh log file. > >> >> Moreover, because of that apache-reloading apc was emptied so it >> takes again some time till all php-scripts are in cache again... > > What you really want is for the logrotate script to ask Apache to > flush its logs and reopen the file. I don't know offhand if Apache has > a way to do that, short of a graceful restart. >
I'm not aware of such an option (doesn't mean it doesn't exist, though). The cleanest solution I can think of is to order apache to send its logs to syslog. [1] shows how to do this. Of course you still have to reload syslog-ng when you rotate the log files but apache itself can keep running. [1] http://oreilly.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2006/10/12/httpd-syslog.html Hope this helps, Florian Philipp
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