On 04/08/2013 04:04, mikel king wrote:
On Aug 3, 2013, at 7:11 PM, Frank Leonhardt <freebsd-...@fjl.co.uk> wrote:
The answer isn't (AFAIK) newsyslog
I did some more digging on the whole log piping thing and apache includes a
nifty little application called rotatelogs which lives in
/usr/local/sbin/rotatelogs on my system that I built form the ports. From the
man page:
NAME
rotatelogs - Piped logging program to rotate Apache logs
SYNOPSIS
rotatelogs [ -l ] [ -f ] logfile rotationtime|filesizeM [ offset ]
SUMMARY
rotatelogs is a simple program for use in conjunction with Apache's
piped logfile feature. It supports rotation based on a time interval or maximum
size of the log.
It looks pretty simple to use just create your log format directive like:
LogFormat "%t \"%r\" %>s \"%{Referer}i\" %b" SpecialFormat
CustomLog "| /usr/local/sbin/rotatelogs /var/log/httpd-access.log
86400" SpecialFormat
I hope that helps. I know I shall be experimenting with this one tomorrow.
Thanks for looking at it, but I probably shouldn't have picked Apache as
an example. I thought it would be something people were familiar with.
The program writing the log is actually called flubnutz and it doesn't
play nice with newsyslog, reopen handles on a signal or anything else.
FWIW I've been using newsyslog since 1998 from most regular system
services and I don't have any problem with it.
(I lied about it being called "flubnutz", before anyone Googles it - but
it's not an Apache-specific issue, as Apache logs are handled well
enough with newsyslog except where you're running virtual hosts with
their own log files, in which case it's a PITA.).
Regards, Frank.
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