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Date:      Mon, 1 Jan 2001 10:16:36 +0100
From:      Udo Schweigert <ust@cert.siemens.de>
To:        Jorge Biquez <jbiquez@icsmx.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Newsyslog for rotating APACHE logs
Message-ID:  <20010101101636.A41890@alaska.cert.siemens.de>
In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20001231153034.01c780c0@intranet.com.mx>; from jbiquez@icsmx.com on Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 03:38:30PM -0600
References:  <5.0.2.1.2.20001231153034.01c780c0@intranet.com.mx>

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On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 15:38:30 -0600, Jorge Biquez wrote:
> Hello all.
> 
> I'm still on the rotation files. I wanted to try newsyslog before going for 
> the scripts paths since seems could be simpler.
> This is what I have on the newsyslog.conf file:
> 
> # logfilename           owner.group     mode count size time [ZB] 
> [/pid_file] [sig_num]
> /var/log/maillog                        664  7     *    24    Z
> /var/log/sendmail.st                    664  10    *    168   B
> /usr/home/sites/logsite01txt            664  9     *    1503  B
> 
> since I wanted that the file rotated at the 15:03 hours.
> 
> On the contrab file I have this:
> 
> #
> #minute hour    mday    month   wday    who     command
> 04      15       *       *       *       root    newsyslog
> 05      15       *       *       *       root    killall -HUP httpd
> 
> But it is not working. I checked the permission and that's not the problem.
> 

If 15:00 is also OK for rotating, try this:

/usr/home/sites/logsite01txt            664  9     *    $D15  B


Also: try the solution with the pid file, like someone other already suggested.

If you REALLY want to rotate at 15:03, setup a shell script which executes
(via crontab at 15:03) the following:

/usr/sbin/newsyslog -F -f /some/path

where /some/path contains:

/usr/home/sites/logsite01txt            664  9     *    *  B 

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