Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:10:41 -0400 From: John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rotatelogs is rotating too quickly... Message-ID: <93AAA504-B8DC-4B17-9B5F-76748C25D5C2@identry.com> In-Reply-To: <FDB267BF-784F-41B2-A73E-99F12F715684@identry.com> References: <27623D32-6BC7-4DC9-92F3-816A6F182EE8@identry.com> <FDB267BF-784F-41B2-A73E-99F12F715684@identry.com>
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> Unfortunately, it's more complex than that... check out this list: > > > ls -lt nes* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 35846 Aug 20 10:19 nes.com-access.log. > 2008-08-20-12_40_09 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 10117 Aug 20 10:01 nes.com-access.log. > 2008-08-20-13_56_42 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 284 Aug 20 08:37 nes.com-access.log. > 2008-08-20-12_36_56 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 204 Aug 20 08:34 nes.com-access.log. > 2008-08-20-12_34_25 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 181 Aug 20 08:31 nes.com-access.log. > 2008-08-20-12_31_35 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 181 Aug 20 08:29 nes.com-access.log. > 2008-08-20-12_28_44 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 204 Aug 20 08:26 nes.com-access.log. > 2008-08-20-12_26_15 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 195 Aug 20 08:24 nes.com-access.log. > 2008-08-20-12_24_24 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 204 Aug 20 08:21 nes.com-access.log. > 2008-08-20-12_20_58 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5147 Aug 20 08:19 nes.com-access.log. > 2008-08-20-12_19_25 > Ah... I think I figured this out... Of course, I had to change a bunch of apache config files to switch from normal log files to piping logs through rotatelogs. I tested each config change after making it, to make sure I didn't mess something up. Of course I had to restart Apache each time I made a change. Here's the key: Apache creates a new access log for every site each time it restarts. So the list above reflects how fast it took me to update a config file and restart apache, not anything that rotate logs was doing. That makes sense, so I guess I can live with the 'makes new log file on restart' quirk. Thanks for the help! -- John
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