Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 23:26:52 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Grant Peel <gpeel@thenetnow.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Logrotate Message-ID: <20081002062652.GA40660@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <668A2B1DDBEC40BCAC6A82589B5D1159@GRANT> References: <668A2B1DDBEC40BCAC6A82589B5D1159@GRANT>
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On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 07:52:48PM -0400, Grant Peel wrote:
> I have recently started using logrotate to rotate all the logs in the
> users home directories. These are all apache logs files.
>
> /home/domain.com/logsaccess_log
> /home/domain.com/logsaccess_log.0.gz
> /home/domain.com/logsaccess_log.1.gz
> /home/domain.com/logsaccess_log.2.gz
>
> I have a problem though. Some of my domains have softlinks pointing to
> them, this causes the logs to be rotated 2 or more times (i.e. 1 time for
> the 'real' directory, and 1 time each for each softlink pointing to
> them).
>
> Example
>
> /home/domain.com/logs/
> domain2.com -> domain.com
> domain3.com -> domain.com
>
> will result in the 'access_log' being rotated 3 times in one run, causing
> my log dirs to look like this:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root holt 160 Oct 1 05:44 access_log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root holt 446 Oct 1 05:44 error_log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root holt 20 Oct 1 03:46 access_log.1.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root holt 20 Oct 1 03:46 access_log.2.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root holt 20 Oct 1 03:46 access_log.3.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root holt 20 Oct 1 03:46 access_log.4.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root holt 20 Oct 1 03:46 access_log.5.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root holt 20 Oct 1 03:46 access_log.6.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root holt 224 Oct 1 03:46 access_log.7.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root holt 20 Sep 30 03:46 access_log.8.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root holt 20 Sep 30 03:46 access_log.9.gz
>
> Here is this appropriate part of my logrotate.conf
>
> # logrotate.conf
>
> compress
>
> ...
>
> /home/*/logs/access_log {
> missingok
> rotate 14
> daily
> create 644 root
> sharedscripts
> postrotate
> /usr/local/sbin/apachectl restart
> endscript
> }
>
> # End of logrotate.conf
>
>
> Question, is there a way to stop this from happening?
The problem is that you're using a wildcard in your log list:
/home/*/logs/access_log is going to expand to:
/home/domain.com/logs/access_log
/home/domain2.com/logs/access_log
/home/domain3.com/logs/access_log
/home/...anythingelse.../logs/access_log
So the software will do exactly what you asked for.
What we use on our production webservers:
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
CustomLog "/var/log/httpd-access.log" combined
This puts the VirtualHost name being accessed as the first field
in the logfile. Every night, via a cronjob, we split the file
up per VirtualHost using a script that comes with Apache called
split-logfile. E.g.:
cd where_you_want_the_logs
/usr/local/sbin/split-logfile < /var/log/httpd-access.log
This will make a separate logfile per virtual host name, and you
can do whatever you want from there on out.
There's a performance advantage here as well: one logfile means only
one file descriptor open, which is Good(tm). Multiple logfiles opened
under Apache does not scale well.
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