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From: John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com>
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Subject: Re: rotatelogs is rotating too quickly...
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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