newsyslog and apache

[Noah]

On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:36:02 +0930, Tim Aslat wrote
> In the immortal words of "Noah" <admin2 at enabled.com>...
> > this advice does not give me many warm fuzzies - the website appears
> > to be down.  any other util recommendations that rotate hundreds of
> > apache logs files really well.  newsyslog is not meeting our
> > requirements at the moment.
> 
> Have you tried using the internal rotation code in apache?
> 
> this excerpt from "man rotatelogs" should provide more information
>        rotatelogs  is  a  simple  program for use in conjunction with
> Apache's       piped logfile feature which can be used like this:
> 
>           TransferLog "| rotatelogs /path/to/logs/access_log 86400"
> 


Okay this looks like a viable option.  can rotatelogs also age out and delete
log files that are older than 30 days?  And does it compress the log files as
well?

- Noah




>        This creates the files /path/to/logs/access_log.nnnn where 
> nnnn is  the       system time at which the log nominally starts 
> (this time will always be       a multiple of the rotation time, so 
> you can synchronize  cron  scripts       with it).  At the end of 
> each rotation time (here after 24 hours) a new       log is started.
> 
> Logging is internal to apache, and doesn't require apache to be
> restarted.
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Tim
> 
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