On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 02:22:46AM +0100, Paolo Aglialoro wrote:
> Thank you, here is the diff for newsyslog.conf:
> 
> 
> 1c1
> < #     $OpenBSD: newsyslog.conf,v 1.29 2011/04/14 20:32:34 sthen Exp $
> ---
> > #     $OpenBSD: newsyslog.conf,v 1.30 2012/12/27 02:16:14 sthen Exp $
> 17a18,19
> > #/var/www/logs/access.log             644  7     *    24    ZB "kill -s
> USR1 `cat /var/run/nginx.pid`"
> > #/var/www/logs/error.log              644  7     *    24    ZB "kill -s
> USR1 `cat /var/run/nginx.pid`"

Remove "B".
And the last part should be:
/var/run/nginx.pid SIGUSR1

e.g.
/var/www/logs/access.log        644 7     *    24    Z /var/run/nginx.pid 
SIGUSR1


> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Antoine Jacoutot 
> <ajacou...@bsdfrog.org>wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 11:02:56PM +0100, Paolo Aglialoro wrote:
> > > Hi misc!
> > >
> > > Considering that with 5.2 nginx is going to be (already is?) the official
> > > http server (I'm using it with joy, I like its minimalistic approach), is
> > > there some officially recommended way to rotate the logs in
> > /var/www/logs/
> > > which are getting bigger and bigger?
> >
> > Just use newsyslog(8) and send SIGUSR1 to /var/run/nginx.pid.
> >
> >
> > > Btw, as apache is still present in faq, is any man nginx.conf / faq entry
> > > planned or the only nginx.org is THE doc resource?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> >
> > --
> > Antoine
> 

-- 
Antoine

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