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Date:      Thu, 2 Oct 2008 14:51:26 +0200
From:      "Zbigniew Szalbot" <zszalbot@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: newsyslog and apache
Message-ID:  <94136a2c0810020551r23e39e3fq6b3202d7ef7b71d6@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20081002084811.6fe9a50d@scorpio>
References:  <48E4D8C2.5329.1F4F9A43@d.forsyth.ru.ac.za> <20081002084811.6fe9a50d@scorpio>

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Hello,

2008/10/2 Jerry <gesbbb@yahoo.com>:
> On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:20:50 +0200
> "DA Forsyth" <d.forsyth@ru.ac.za> wrote:
>
>>I used to have one big apache log file, but decided to rotate it once
>>a month using newsyslog.
>>
>>However, now apache stops and does not restart when the log is
>>rotated.
>>
>>line from newsyslog.conf
>>/var/log/apache/httpd-access.log        640 13     *    $M1D8 B
>>  /var/run/httpd.pid 30
>>
>>with a similar one for the error log.
>>
>>I have to manually start apache after this rotates the log.
>>
>>I alos see that 'apachectl restart' stops apache but it doesn't
>>restart.
>>
>>any ideas?
>
>
> I use 'rotatelogs':

No need to change log rotation software since the problem clearly is
somewhere else. You need to inspect Apache's error logs to see why it
cannot start.

-- 
Zbigniew Szalbot



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