Rotating web server logs without restarting Apache

[Gerald de la Pascua]

I usally just copy the file and then

echo > /var/log/apache/httpd_log

and apache doesn't seem to need to be restarted,

thanks

Gerald



On 11/25/05, Luke Hollins <lwh at pathcom.com> wrote:
>
> Ladislav Bodnar wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >Every time my httpd-access.log file is rotated I need to restart Apache,
> >otherwise it won't write into the new httpd-access.log file.
> >
> >Is there a way for Apache (version 2.0.55 on FreeBSD 6.0) to write to the
> >new log file without the need to restart it? I restart it routinely from
> a
> >cron job, but occasionally Apache fails to restart (or more precisely, if
> >fails to shutdown completely before it is told to come up again).
> >
> >
> >
> If you send it kill -USR1 instead of restarting it, it will close and
> re-open the logfile(s).
>
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