On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:33 PM, stupidmail4me <stupidmail...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I have several virtual hosts piping their log files to rotatelogs. For 
> various reasons I have two virtual hosts piping to the same log file:
> <VirtualHost 1.2.3.4>
> CustomLog "|/usr/sbin/rotatelogs /logs/site/access_log.%U-%Y 604800" combined
> </VirtualHost>
> <VirtualHost 1.2.3.5>
> CustomLog "|/usr/sbin/rotatelogs /logs/site/access_log.%U-%Y 604800" combined
> </VirtualHost>
>
> In this case there are understandably two processes of rotatelogs running:
> .../usr/sbin/rotatelogs /logs/access_log.%U-%Y 604800
> .../usr/sbin/rotatelogs /logs/access_log.%U-%Y 604800
>
> Is this setup going to cause any unintended consequences? I'm thinking it 
> might run into a couple of problems but the man page and the web doesn't have 
> a real answer. Does apache and rotatelogs handle cleanly the rotation because 
> there are two processes trying to do the rotation? Is there a file locking 
> problem with rotatelogs whereby one process won't be able to write to the log 
> file?
>
>
>
>
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Use standard logging methods, and run logrotate regularly using cron.
I do it this way. With logrotate you can also mail the owner(s) of the
virtualhosts a compressed version of the log for analysis and delete
it from your server.

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Nilesh Govindarajan
Site & Server Administrator
www.itech7.com

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