Re: Apache Rotate Logs and Log Rotate.

2007-03-05 Thread Peter Pluta
I made a cron entry to compress the logs. We keep them for 10 days. Each log on this server is 940mb for the access and 430mb for the error. This site is very busy and I like having logs for various reasons (dump users uploading illegal content is one reason). The memory buffer clears out in ar

Re: Apache Rotate Logs and Log Rotate.

2007-03-05 Thread David Robillard
On 3/5/07, Peter Pluta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gotcha, do you use a script to compress the logs after the SIGUSR1 and after waiting for a bit for apache to clear it's logging buffer (to not have missing logs)? No I don't. I don't even see why one would want to do this? Newsyslog deletes ext

Re: Apache Rotate Logs and Log Rotate.

2007-03-05 Thread Peter Pluta
Gotcha, do you use a script to compress the logs after the SIGUSR1 and after waiting for a bit for apache to clear it's logging buffer (to not have missing logs)? David Robillard wrote: On 3/5/07, Peter Pluta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks, David. I had already configured it like that the

Re: Apache Rotate Logs and Log Rotate.

2007-03-05 Thread David Robillard
On 3/5/07, Peter Pluta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks, David. I had already configured it like that the first time around after reading up on it a bit. Most articles/tips I have read say to wait 10 minutes or so and then compress the logs with a shell script in order to be sure Apache finished

Re: Apache Rotate Logs and Log Rotate.

2007-03-05 Thread Peter Pluta
Thanks, David. I had already configured it like that the first time around after reading up on it a bit. Most articles/tips I have read say to wait 10 minutes or so and then compress the logs with a shell script in order to be sure Apache finished logging to the files. Another thing, just to be

Re: Apache Rotate Logs and Log Rotate.

2007-03-05 Thread David Robillard
On 3/3/07, Peter Pluta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I see, thanks. Does the shell script you use automatically delete the original logs after verbalizer or awstats makes it's own? I imagine the ones those programs use are smaller in size? No, the shell script does not delete any logs. Log rotatio

Re: Apache Rotate Logs and Log Rotate.

2007-03-03 Thread David Robillard
On 3/3/07, Peter Pluta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I see, thanks. Does the shell script you use automatically delete the original logs after verbalizer or awstats makes it's own? I imagine the ones those programs use are smaller in size? No, the shell script does not delete any logs. Log rotatio

Re: Apache Rotate Logs and Log Rotate.

2007-03-02 Thread David Robillard
On 3/1/07, Peter Pluta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What I did was made a new log format to include the %v (it includes the vhost name in the logs). Lowered my error log to just info. I also got rid of the errorlog and customlog in my vhost brackets and setup newsyslog to rotate the http-access.log

Re: Apache Rotate Logs and Log Rotate.

2007-02-28 Thread David Robillard
On 2/28/07, Peter Pluta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey David, quick question. I found this while doing a bit of reading. Is it safe for Syslogd to send a kill -HUP to apache? This site is extremely high traffic and I wouldn't want it cutting off users during the HUP to rotate the logs. I'm runnin

Re: Apache Rotate Logs and Log Rotate.

2007-02-15 Thread David Robillard
I have Apache making separate log files for each of my virtual hosts and putting them in /home/vhostname/log. Rotate logs makes a new log every 24 hours, but the logs quickly add up and since the sites are fairly busy the logs are at times over 5gigs. Is there any way to make rotate logs delete th

Re: Apache Rotate Logs and Log Rotate

2007-02-15 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi Peter, Peter Pluta wrote: > Any feedback, suggestions, or comments would be greatly appreciated. you can use newsyslog for this, see man newsyslog.conf for more details. I use e.g. the following line: /home/http/*/logs/*.log 664 72*$M1D0 JG /var/run/httpd.pid Best regards, Matt

Re: Apache Rotate Logs and Log Rotate

2007-02-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
Peter Pluta wrote: > I have Apache making separate log files for each of my virtual hosts and > putting them in /home/vhostname/log. Rotate logs makes a new log every > 24 hours, but the logs quickly add up and since the sites are fairly > busy the logs are at times over 5gigs. Is there any way to

Apache Rotate Logs and Log Rotate

2007-02-14 Thread Peter Pluta
I have Apache making separate log files for each of my virtual hosts and putting them in /home/vhostname/log. Rotate logs makes a new log every 24 hours, but the logs quickly add up and since the sites are fairly busy the logs are at times over 5gigs. Is there any way to make rotate logs delete