Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:30:31 -0400 From: John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> To: Rudi Kramer - MWEB <rkramer@mweb.com> Cc: Zbigniew Szalbot <z.szalbot@lcwords.com>, User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: logrotate question Message-ID: <57133960-6A6C-4362-96DC-CD774F24C600@identry.com> In-Reply-To: <39DC135F7F0571489196E0B6F5D58B4A03B46071@MWBEXCH.mweb.com> References: <48AC0A7D.80207@lcwords.com> <39DC135F7F0571489196E0B6F5D58B4A03B46071@MWBEXCH.mweb.com>
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On Aug 20, 2008, at 8:48 AM, Rudi Kramer - MWEB wrote: > >> Zbigniew Szalbot >> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 2:14 PM >> To: User Questions >> Subject: logrotate question >> >> Dear all, >> >> I am trying to use logrotate from ports and I am getting the >> following >> error. Can anyone offer any insight? > > Hi Zbigniew, > > I started investigating logrotate but someone put me on to newsyslog > instead. > Newsyslog is part of the FreeBSD and amazing simple to setup: > > 1) vi /etc/newsyslog.conf > > 2) Add the following line: > > /var/log/httpd/*.log www:www 644 60 * @T00 BJG > /var/run/httpd.pid > > I would recommend reading man pages newsyslog newsyslog.conf for more > info. > I use newsyslog for other log files, but when I decided I needed to rotate apache logs, recently (see "rotatelogs rotates logs too quickly" thread), I read the following in "Absolute FreeBSD, 2nd edition" "If you simply use newsyslog to rotate your [Apache] logs as you do for other programs, Apache will corrupt its own logs. Apache supports logging to programs, however. I recommend handling your logs via rotatelogs(8), included with Apache." It took me a whole day to switch over to rotatelogs and then investigate some odd behavior, but its working great now. -- John
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