On 06/25/2010 04:03 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: > It appears that there are 2 ways of rotating apache logs. > > Logrotate can be used, in which case apache needs to be restarted after > the logs are rotated.
Yes, but this is usually a graceful restart, at least. > There is also a rotatelogs program included with apache that controls > log rotation (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/programs/rotatelogs.html). > > Does anyone have a preference, or know which is considered to be best > practice? I'm inclined to lean toward the later. I've always used the system log rotator (logrotate, logadm, etc). If you're concerned about the effects of a restart you could try logrotate's copytruncate option.
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