Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 07:11:51 -0500 From: Luke Hollins <lwh@pathcom.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rotating web server logs without restarting Apache Message-ID: <4386FF87.9070506@pathcom.com> In-Reply-To: <200511250845.43542.distro.watch@msa.hinet.net> References: <200511250845.43542.distro.watch@msa.hinet.net>
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Ladislav Bodnar wrote: >Hi, > >Every time my httpd-access.log file is rotated I need to restart Apache, >otherwise it won't write into the new httpd-access.log file. > >Is there a way for Apache (version 2.0.55 on FreeBSD 6.0) to write to the >new log file without the need to restart it? I restart it routinely from a >cron job, but occasionally Apache fails to restart (or more precisely, if >fails to shutdown completely before it is told to come up again). > > > If you send it kill -USR1 instead of restarting it, it will close and re-open the logfile(s). -- PGP: http://www.pathcom.com/~lwh/lwh@pathcom.com.asc
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