On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 2:58 PM, John Almberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm a newbie admin and I've just figure out something that will be obvious > to most on this list... that apache log files can get big, fast. > > I did a df for another reason the other day and was surprised to see my > /var partition at 85% full. > > Anyway, I did some googling and decided to use rotatelogs to do just that. > > Now... I've updated all my apache config files to use rotate logs, like > this: > > ErrorLog "|/usr/local/sbin/rotatelogs > /var/log/www/nes.com-error.log.%Y-%m-%d-%H_%M_%S 86400" > CustomLog "|/usr/local/sbin/rotatelogs > /var/log/www/nes.com-access.log.%Y-%m-%d-%H_%M_%S 5M" combined > > Unless I am blind and not seeing something, this is right out of the man > page. > > The problem is that the access logs are rolling over very quickly... no > where near the 5 Meg I expected. It's not quite every access, but almost. > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5147 Aug 20 08:19 > nes.com-access.log.2008-08-20-12_19_25 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 204 Aug 20 08:21 > nes.com-access.log.2008-08-20-12_20_58 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 195 Aug 20 08:24 > nes.com-access.log.2008-08-20-12_24_24 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 204 Aug 20 08:26 > nes.com-access.log.2008-08-20-12_26_15 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 181 Aug 20 08:29 > nes.com-access.log.2008-08-20-12_28_44 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 181 Aug 20 08:31 > nes.com-access.log.2008-08-20-12_31_35 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 204 Aug 20 08:34 > nes.com-access.log.2008-08-20-12_34_25 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 284 Aug 20 08:37 > nes.com-access.log.2008-08-20-12_36_56 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 710 Aug 20 08:45 > nes.com-access.log.2008-08-20-12_40_09 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3364 Aug 20 08:38 > nes.com-error.log.2008-08-20-00_00_00 > That does not look like 5 Meg but 5 Minutes. Riaan _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
