Full_Name: Marco A. Zamora C.
Version: 2.3.5
OS: HP-UX 10.20 w/current patches
Submission from: goofy.cbbanorte.com.mx (207.249.130.209)
I rotate logs by the usual Unix convention of renaming the logfile
and signalling the daemon process, which normally makes the daemon
close the existing file and create a new one without restarting.
In the specific case of Apache, I've scripted the following, running
from cron:
cd /var/log/httpd
somefile=0
DATE=`date +%y%m%d%H%M%S`
for file in *_log; do
mv $file $file.$DATE
somefile=1
done
if [ $somefile -eq 0 ]; do
echo "`basename $0`: Wierdness: no *_log files in `pwd`, aborting rotation"
1>&2
exit 1
done
/opt/apache/bin/apachectl graceful
# Wait until the logfiles are freed or 5 mins pass:
secs=0
while fuser *_log.$DATE 2>/dev/null | grep -q '[0-9]'; do
secs=`expr $secs + 5`
if [ $secs -ge 300 ]; then
echo "`basename $0`: ERROR: Apache does not free $file, aborting rotation"
1>&2
exit 1
fi
sleep 5
done
for file in *_log.$DATE; do
gzip -9 $FILE
done
[..more code that processes website statistics and so forth...]
The problem is that the "httpd -DSSL" children do not close the
existing error_log file on the graceful restart. Nor do they with a
plain restart.
I've had to kludge around this problem by doing a "stop; sleep; start",
which is really not a nice way to do it.
My main server config says:
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/error_log
The SSL virtual host (<VirtualHost _default_:443>) also has the
same line, as per the docs somewhere.
Thanks in advance, great work :-)... Marco Zamora
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