On Tue Nov 7 11:57:44 2000 -0500 Buddy Lee Haystack wrote:
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> I can always rotate my logs manually, or use the Apache rotatelogs program that
>Ri?ardas ?epas recommended, although if the "rotatelogs" program restarts the server
>I'll be back to square one - the program's man page just states that it doesn't kill
>the server, but does that mean that it doesn't restart it? I'm leaning along the
>lines of just killing the process, rotating the logs, and restarting it. It should
>take no more than 5 seconds once a week a 4:00am.
>
As far as I understand there is no need for restart in that case. When parent
httpd opens log it doesn't open file but creates pipe to another process (rotatelogs)
and sends all data to that process. Then rotatelogs takes care about opening and
closing files on it's own.
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