From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 7 17:43:20 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C51F1065670 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 17:43:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joe@netmusician.org) Received: from mail.netmusician.org (dorian.netmusician.org [66.244.95.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D4AC8FC12 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 17:43:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mail.netmusician.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17125B8FE for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 13:26:22 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at netmusician.org Received: from mail.netmusician.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (dorian.netmusician.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id VrRvXpiTo+zI for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 13:26:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Shakti.local (c-67-176-145-181.hsd1.in.comcast.net [67.176.145.181]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.netmusician.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 84259B8BE for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 13:26:16 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4CAE02AB.1090009@netmusician.org> Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:26:03 -0400 From: Joe Auty User-Agent: Postbox 2.0.0 (Macintosh/20100928) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: newsyslog.conf and Apache log files X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:43:20 -0000 Hello, I have the following entry for dealing with my Apache log files: /var/log/httpd/* 644 2 * $M1D0 GBJ /var/run/httpd.pid 30 Unfortunately, this has created these big long log files such as the following: httpderror_log.2.bz2.2.bz2.2.bz2.1.bz2.1.bz2.1.bz2.0.bz2 How can I prevent these dumb log file names from being created? -- Joe Auty, NetMusician NetMusician helps musicians, bands and artists create beautiful, professional, custom designed, career-essential websites that are easy to maintain and to integrate with popular social networks. www.netmusician.org joe@netmusician.org