Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 05:53:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Mark Hughes <mh_lists@digitalspy.co.uk> To: brain_damaged <brain_damaged@florida-wireless.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: httpd log files big Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111040547290.948-100000@www.digitalspy.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200111040049.AA3553034428@florida-wireless.com>
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On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, brain_damaged wrote: > Hello > I noticed that my / was full. > I could not understand why and noticed that under > /var/log that my httpd-access and httpd-error logs are over 8 megs big. > I am running apache 3.1.9 > I am not sure were to setup a log rotation for it so that they don't get that big. > how do I do that or can I ? Sounds like nimda's doing. I came to my log files the other day on my machine attached to my DSL line, and they'd shot up to 25MB - which is ridiculous given that the web server itself has probably done less that 100 hits since June. It is possible to set up a log rotation script - i'm not sure of the "correct" way of doing it, but what I'd do would be to run a nightly or weekly cron job which called a script that: 1) copied and gzip'd the old log files to an archive location 2) touch'd new logfiles 3) restarted apache to get it using the new log files. Shouldn't be too challenging to write a script to do that. > And does anyone have a perl script or program to read the httpd logs and pull out failed access or something to auto notify of virus attacks or such ? I think there is a couple of apache perl modules called Apache::CodeRed and Apache::Nimda - available from http://acadia.ne.mediaone.net/Nimda/ Hope this helps. Mark -- Mark Hughes - DVD & Film Content Manager, Technical Officer Digital Spy Ltd http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ Your number one source for digital media and entertainment news! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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