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Date:      Fri, 25 Nov 2005 16:38:14 -0800
From:      "Dan O'Connor" <dan@ferrarishields.com>
To:        "Ladislav Bodnar" <distro.watch@msa.hinet.net>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Rotating web server logs without restarting Apache
Message-ID:  <007601c5f221$b0d9e640$0599460a@Dan>
References:  <200511250845.43542.distro.watch@msa.hinet.net>

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> 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.

In /etc/newsyslog.conf:

/var/log/httpd-access.log               644  4     100  *     J 
/var/run/httpd.pid  30
/var/log/httpd-error.log                644  4     100  *     J 
/var/run/httpd.pid  30

This will signal apache to do a graceful restart following a log 
rotation...

~Dan





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