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Date:      Thu, 2 Oct 2008 08:48:11 -0400
From:      Jerry <gesbbb@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: newsyslog and apache
Message-ID:  <20081002084811.6fe9a50d@scorpio>
In-Reply-To: <48E4D8C2.5329.1F4F9A43@d.forsyth.ru.ac.za>
References:  <48E4D8C2.5329.1F4F9A43@d.forsyth.ru.ac.za>

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On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:20:50 +0200
"DA Forsyth" <d.forsyth@ru.ac.za> wrote:

>I used to have one big apache log file, but decided to rotate it once=20
>a month using newsyslog.
>
>However, now apache stops and does not restart when the log is=20
>rotated.
>
>line from newsyslog.conf
>/var/log/apache/httpd-access.log        640 13     *    $M1D8 B      =20
>  /var/run/httpd.pid 30
>
>with a similar one for the error log.
>
>I have to manually start apache after this rotates the log.
>
>I alos see that 'apachectl restart' stops apache but it doesn't=20
>restart.
>
>any ideas?


I use 'rotatelogs':

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/programs/rotatelogs.html

to facilitate the rotating of logs. If you need further information,
contact me OL.

--=20
Jerry
gesbbb@yahoo.com

To see a need and wait to be asked, is to already refuse.

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