Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:37:54 -0400 From: John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Fwd: rotatelogs is rotating too quickly... Message-ID: <F8DD12AB-74C6-4617-BFC4-00829088E0EE@identry.com> References: <5B07C7C5-912C-465D-9837-8DA2F4FE1457@identry.com>
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> John Almberg wrote: >> I'm a newbie admin and I've just figure out something that will be >> obvious to most on this list... that apache log files can get big, >> fast. > > What apache version you are using? rotatelogs syntax differ a lot > between them. > Version - Apache/2.2.6 (FreeBSD) mod_ssl/2.2.6 OpenSSL/0.9.7m DAV/2 PHP/5.2.5 with Suhosin-Patch rotatelogs doesn't seem to have a --version argument, but if I just type it on the command line it prints out the following usage message: [identry@on:www]> rotatelogs Usage: rotatelogs [-l] <logfile> <rotation time in seconds> [offset minutes from UTC] or <rotation size in megabytes> Add this: TransferLog "|rotatelogs /some/where 86400" or TransferLog "|rotatelogs /some/where 5M" to httpd.conf. The generated name will be /some/where.nnnn where nnnn is the system time at which the log nominally starts (N.B. if using a rotation time, the time will always be a multiple of the rotation time, so you can synchronize cron scripts with it). At the end of each rotation time or when the file size is reached a new log is started.
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