You may be aware of this, but cronolog is another option:
http://www.ford-mason.co.uk/resources/cronolog/
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Reppucci" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Terry Newnham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "mod_perl list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 2:11 PM
Subject: [OT] Re: Rotating Apache logs
>
> This is definitely off topic for this list, however...
>
> I'm not exactly sure what you're asking here, but if what you're asking is
> "how do I rotate logfiles without doing a hard stop/start cycle?", then
> the answer is (from the command line...) rename the open logfiles, then
> send the server either a SIGHUP or a SIGUSR1, which will cause it to
> reopen its logfiles.
>
> SIGHUP does it "forcefully" (existing requests will aborted), while
> SIGUSR1 does it "gracefully", allowing each child server currently
> handling requests to complete the request before restarting it.
>
> If you use the 'apachectl' control script included in the apache
> distribution, these options correspond to 'apachectl restart' and
> 'apachectl graceful', respectively (although, if I remember right, the
> 'graceful' option wasn't added until around release 1.3.0).
>
> So, something like this is what you want to do:
>
> root# cd /usr/local/apache
> root# mv logs/access_log logs/access_log.21-feb-2001
> root# mv logs/error_log logs/error_log.21-feb-2001
> root# ./apachectl graceful
>
> At this point, new logs will be opened in the logs directory, and you can
> safely do whatever (gzip, archive, analyze, etc...) you want with the
> rotated logs.
>
> HTH,
> <Steve>
>
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Terry Newnham wrote:
>
> > I've found out how to edit httpd.conf so that it will rotate the error
> > and access logs. But you have to restart apache to read that which I'd
> > rather not do. Is there a command-line use or the rotatelogs by means of
> > which you can rotate the logs on the fly ?
>
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