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? > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org >
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. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Administrator www.itech7.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
