Log rotation

[Paul English <ta...@speakeasy.org>]

I set up apache 2.0.35 with a plain config file (no log rotation 
directives), and my log files are getting 
automatically rotated. It appears to be based on their size, since there 
is no consistency in the dates. They are all getting rotated at approx 
4.3-4.4 megabytes. Why is that? Can I stop it from happening? 

I need to make my logs only rotate when I tell them to, that is - once per 
month, but at the moment they are getting big enough that apache is 
rotating them more often.

Here's the line I'm using to log:
CustomLog logs/access_log common

Any help appreciated,
Paul


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Re: Log rotation

[Lewis Watson <li...@visionsix.com>]

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From: "Paul English" <ta...@speakeasy.org>
To: <us...@httpd.apache.org>
Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 12:39 PM
Subject: Log rotation


>
> I set up apache 2.0.35 with a plain config file (no log rotation
> directives), and my log files are getting
> automatically rotated. It appears to be based on their size, since there
> is no consistency in the dates. They are all getting rotated at approx
> 4.3-4.4 megabytes. Why is that? Can I stop it from happening?
>
> I need to make my logs only rotate when I tell them to, that is - once per
> month, but at the moment they are getting big enough that apache is
> rotating them more often.
>
> Here's the line I'm using to log:
> CustomLog logs/access_log common
>
> Any help appreciated,
> Paul
>

What's is in your  /etc/logrotate.d folder?

Lewis



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Re: Log rotation

[Paul English <ta...@speakeasy.org>]

> 
> The only way I've seen this done is through the configuration file or
> through a cronjob.  So... if it isn't in your configuration file, then
> it must be elsewhere.  Check your cron entries to see if there's a
> program running that does that.  logrotate will do it if it configured
> that way... "man logrotate" will give you the info you need if this is
> going on.

Aah okay - Suse bit me. It turns out that there is a separate set of 
crontabs in a separate directory for daily, hourly, monthly, etc and one 
of those rotates logfiles. I figured that sort of thing would never rotate 
my apache logs, since apache was installed in /usr/local, but it was 
logging to /var/log/httpd which is where Suse looks for Apache logs.

Oh well - lesson learned.

Thanks,
Paul


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Re: Log rotation

[Jack Nerad <jn...@cimedia.com>]

On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 13:39, Paul English wrote:
> 
> I set up apache 2.0.35 with a plain config file (no log rotation 
> directives), and my log files are getting 
> automatically rotated. It appears to be based on their size, since there 
> is no consistency in the dates. They are all getting rotated at approx 
> 4.3-4.4 megabytes. Why is that? Can I stop it from happening? 
> 
> I need to make my logs only rotate when I tell them to, that is - once per 
> month, but at the moment they are getting big enough that apache is 
> rotating them more often.
> 
> Here's the line I'm using to log:
> CustomLog logs/access_log common
> 

The only way I've seen this done is through the configuration file or
through a cronjob.  So... if it isn't in your configuration file, then
it must be elsewhere.  Check your cron entries to see if there's a
program running that does that.  logrotate will do it if it configured
that way... "man logrotate" will give you the info you need if this is
going on.

--
Jack Nerad




> Any help appreciated,
> Paul
> 
> 
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