On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Garg, Saman <saman_g...@intuit.com> wrote:
> Hi All, > > I am trying to implement apache mod-jk logrotate using apache > "rotatelogs" program. Below is the entry that I have made in mod-jk > config file where <apache_home> and <log_location> values are correctly > specified. > > ---------------------------- > JkLogFile "|/<apache_home>/bin/rotatelogs > /<log_location>/mod_jk.log.%Y-%m-%d-%H_%M_%S 86400" > JkLogLevel error > ---------------------------- > The problem here is after making above entries, when I do the apache > restart for the first time, it doesn't create the new mod-jk log file. > But when I change the log level to "info", it does create the mod-jk log > file. > ------ > JkLogLevel info > ------ > > When log level was set to "error", it waits for error to happen and > should automatically create the mod-jk file at that time? Contrary to > that, I tried to send the error message to update mod-jk log, but it > still didn't create the mod-jk log. > > Could somebody please help? > rotatelogs doesn't create the file until it has something to write. Perhaps your attempt to cause mod_jk to write an error message was unsuccessful, such that rotatelogs had nothing to write.
