Re: apache logging problems

[Eric Rostetter <rostetter mail utexas edu>]

Quoting Joshua Andrews <josh wavefood com>:

> The httpd logrotate script was much as you wrote it out but there are
> so many entries because of the virtualhost logging that I have
> consolidated them all into one expression;
>
> /var/log/httpd/access_log /var/log/httpd/any_log etc... {
> missingok
> postrotate
> /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/httpd.pid 2>/dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
> endscript
> }

You left out the "sharedscripts" option.

> I am thinking that restarting httpd so many times as I had logs may be
> the problem.

Unless you use the "sharedscripts" option as I showed, it will still
restart it for each log file listed.  The "sharedscripts" option tells
it to only run the script once after rotating all the logs....

> Thank you for the response, it helps getting another view.
> -Joshua

No problem.

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Eric Rostetter
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