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Date:      Mon, 15 Mar 1999 22:08:38 -0800
From:      Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com>
To:        <unknown@riverstyx.net>, George Vagner <kf7nn1@cybertrails.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: apache 
Message-ID:  <4.1.19990315220728.00ab23a0@mail-r>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9903152057230.11148-100000@hades.riverstyx.n et>
References:  <36ED8132.505A53AF@cybertrails.com>

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At 08:58 PM 3/15/99 , unknown@riverstyx.net wrote:
>depends on what yer doing to turn it over.  you've got to either use
>something like logrotate, or else flush it with something like "echo -n >
>access.log" 'coz apache'll hold on to that inode and keep on writing to
>it, even after it's "deleted".

IIRC, the apache docs specifically say that you have to send some signal to
it when you change its log file, because it remembers where it last wrote,
and it writes to that spot in the same file again.

--Ludwig Pummer ( ludwigp@bigfoot.com ) ICQ UIN: 692441


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