Re: >2Gb Files

[Christopher McCrory <chrismcc pricegrabber com>]

Hello...


On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 09:04, Vidyut Luther wrote:
> I've seen this happen to our apache log files all the time, the only
> quick way to fix it was to
> run logrotate based on file size, and not number of days etc.  I'm
> hoping apache2 has this problem fixed, but we still use apache 1.3x
> for production.
> 
> You'll notice that apache stops writing to the log file, which causes
> all your stats to go haywire.. as you get empty days etc. logrotate is
> definitely your friend, it manages old files etc, compresses em and
> all.
> 

My solution from the RH7.1 days:

cat /etc/cron.d/apachelogs.cron
30 1-3,5-23 * * root /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.apache


/etc/logrotate.apache:
/logs/access_log /logs/error_log  {
    rotate 8
    missingok
    compress
    delaycompress
    size=1024M
    noolddir
    sharedscripts
    postrotate
      /bin/kill -USR1 `cat /var/run/httpd.pid 2>/dev/null` 2> /dev/null
|| true
    endscript
}


#you can now use 'size=1G' also



> Only other thing I can think of is to look at the apache src, and
> recompile, like you had to back in the old days for number of open
> files, where you had to recompile the kernel.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 11:38:11 -0400 (EDT), Zate Berg
> <zate superfreeway com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > Recently had an issue with the Weblogic Plugin for apache crashing because
> > the log files got larger than 2 Gb.  I thought that ext3 supported files
> > larger than 2Gb?  Am I correct in assuming this is an issue with apache/WL
> > Plugin and not the OS ?  How can i prove this ?
> > 
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