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Date:      Mon, 3 Dec 2001 00:50:14 +0100 (CET)
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= <trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no>
To:        <Holger.Kipp@alogis.com>
Cc:        Nuno Teixeira <nuno.mailinglists@pt-quorum.com>, Christopher Elkins <christopherelkins@yahoo.com>, Leo De Geer <leo@ktv.se>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: problem with apache log
Message-ID:  <20011203004715.I37355-100000@ramstind.gtf.ol.no>
In-Reply-To: <20011202234027.A56590@intserv.int1.b.intern>

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On Sun, 2 Dec 2001 23:40+0100, Holger Kipp wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 10:16:18PM +0000, Nuno Teixeira wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 06:52:53PM -0800, Christopher Elkins wrote:
> > : On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 09:00:31PM +0100, Leo De Geer wrote:
> > : >
> > : >    Il get problem whit the access log every time the log turns over. I'm
> > : >    using the newsyslog.conf and the line fore the log is
> > : >
> > : >    /var/log/httpd/httpd-access.log                 644  7     *    @T10
> > : >    Z
> >   Apache logs are a litle exception to newsyslog. You can't compress this
> >   logs, you need to do in newsyslog.conf something like:
> >
> >   ...
> >   /var/log/apache/httpd-error.log    640  3   3000 *     B  /var/run/httpd.pid 30
> >   /var/log/apache/httpd-access.log   640  7   100000 *  B  /var/run/httpd.pid 30
> >   ...
> >
> >   where 30 is a SIGHUP signal.
>
> Hi,
>
> according to man newsyslog, SIGHUP is the default, so "30" is not needed.
> Furthermore, compression _does_ work over here without any problems.

30 is equal to SIGUSR1, and this signal tells Apache to gracefully
shutdown each child, reread the configuration file, reopen log files,
and finally forking off new children.

SIGHUP is a bit more brutal, but you achieve the same.

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Trond Endrestøl                          |    trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no
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