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From: Philip Murray <pmurray@nevada.net.nz>
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:18:51 +1300
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Subject: Re: Rotating web server logs without restarting Apache
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On 25/11/2005, at 1:45 PM, Ladislav Bodnar wrote:
> 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).

Look at sysutils/cronolog in ports. Apache logs to cronolog via a  
pipe and cronolog will do rotation for you without needing to restart  
Apache.

Cheers

Phil