On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Mark Montague <m...@catseye.org> wrote: > On November 15, 2011 15:34 , =?utf-8?B?w5h5dmluZCBMb2RlIC0gRm9ydW1z?= > <for...@lode.is> wrote: >>> >>> Have you configured log rotation? When rotating logs, it is common to >>> gracefully restart apache to write to new log files. >> >> I found the answer in /etc/logrotate.d/apache2 >> >> /etc/init.d/apache2 reload is executed when logs are rotated. > > I use cronolog because it avoids the need to signal httpd. cronolog also > has a number of other nice features, including running as a different user > id than the web server (so a rogue CGI cannot modify the log files), > flexible file naming, and automatic symbolic linking. (I'm using version > 1.7.0 beta with the jumbo patch). > > http://cronolog.org/ >
+1 me too :) One downside to cronolog is that it is a piped logger, which means an extra process (or two, if you rotate your error logs as well) per vhost. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
