It's doing fine generating logs in the format that I want, but the docs say that there's a way to create a symlink to both the current log file, and the previous log file. I can't get it to do the previous symlink.... here's what the docs say:
SYNOPSIS
cronolog [OPTION]... template
<snip>
Options
<snip>
-S NAME--symlink=NAME
-l NAME
--link=NAME
maintain a symbolic link from NAME to the current log file.
-P NAME
--prevlink=NAME
maintain a symbolic link from NAME to the previous log file.
Requires that the --symlink option is specified, as cronolog
renames the current link to the name specified for the previous
link.
this is how i'm invoking the command in my httpd.conf
CustomLog "|/usr/local/sbin/cronolog --symlink=/opt/logs/fe01_access_log --prevlink=/opt/logs/fe01_access_log_last /opt/logs/fe01_access_log-%Y%m%d-%H" combined
the previous syntax must be completely wrong because cronolog never even gets started (nor do the symlinks get created). but.. on the website, it says that it is invoked using (which doesn't work either):
CustomLog "|/usr/local/sbin/cronolog --symlink=/opt/logs/fe01_access_log --prev-symlink=/opt/logs/fe01_access_log_last /opt/logs/fe01_access_log-%Y%m%d-%H" combined
and this is the directory listing, showing what the symlinks point to (when they actually get created)....
37 Nov 12 11:54 fe01_access_log -> /opt/logs/fe01_access_log-20031112-12
312835 Nov 12 11:54 fe01_access_log-20031112-11
7585 Nov 12 12:00 fe01_access_log-20031112-12
37 Nov 12 11:54 fe01_access_log_last -> /opt/logs/fe01_access_log-20031112-12
any ideas on what i'm doing wrong? it's probably something really stupid, but i've tried about a million different combos of options....
-r
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