Cronolog...no restart needed. -- ~Allie D.
On Tue, May 15, 2007 12:11, John Mendenhall wrote: >> If you don't mind a second or two of down time then you can use >> something like this in newsyslog.conf as a restart command: >> >> "apachectl stop;sleep 1;apachctl start;sleep 10;apachectl start" >> >> The first sleep gives apache a second to finish active requests before >> trying to start again. The second sleep and start is to catch the case >> where the first start fails because apache is still running. > > I have a script which does the following: > > + rotates logs > + calls apachectl stop (twice, with sleep 2 after each call) > + calls apachectl stop and greps the output to make sure it is stopped > (looks for 'not running') > + if I don't find not running, pages me > + run apachectl startssl > > This is all in a wrapper script which then calls awstats > after a successful rotate and restart. > > Works for us. > > JohnM > > -- > john mendenhall > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > surf utopia > internet services
