Hello,
I have Apache installed/compiled from source in my server (*not* from RPM). In its httpd.conf, I specify so that it writes its log in /var/log/apache/logs/. The log files are access_log and error_log.
So I read the man page for logrotate, and thought to play around with it. I want the apache logs to be rotated, and I add these to my /etc/logrotate.conf:
# rotate apache logs (added by reubendb) /var/log/apache/logs/access_log { rotate 5 weekly }
/var/log/apache/logs/error_log { rotate 5 weekly }
It seems that logrotate works fine. In my /var/log/apache/logs directory now I can see access_log, access_log.1, error_log, error_log.1, etc.
But apparently when the log files are rotated, apache keep writing to the old one. So right now my Apache still writes to access_log.2 and error_log.2. Both access_log and error_log are empty, and so are access_log.1 and error_log.1
This, I think, kinda make sense if Apache already opened the file and keep it open. logrotate changes the logname, but apache keep "refers" to the file itself. If I restart Apache, then it will write to access_log and error_log.
So my question is, how do I solve this problem?
Thanks a lot for any help. RDB
I do it this way:
/var/log/apache/logs/access_log /var/log/apache/logs/error_log {
rotate 5
weekly
sharedscripts
postrotate
/usr/bin/killall -HUP httpd
}The sharedscripts line tell logrotate to do wait to do the following script until after all files listed are rotated. The postrotate lines stop and restart the server.
HTH,
Bill
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