This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_008B_01C1092B.038FE450 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable problem resolved, by adding another ' - ' to the su statement so as to = accept the environment variables for the user created to run rotatelogs, = it nolonger tries to kill roots shell. so now the directive is: CustomLog "| su - -c '/usr/sbin/rotatelogs /var/log/httpd/apache2mysql/apache2mysql_log_bunny 3600' logsync" mysql and error_log returns=20 [Tue Jul 10 10:25:34 2001] [notice] Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) = (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_ssl/2.8.1 OpenSSL/0.9.6 DAV/1.0.2 PHP/4. 0.4pl1 mod_perl/1.24_01 configured -- resuming normal operations once again thanks for giving me places to search. ------=_NextPart_000_008B_01C1092B.038FE450 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
problem resolved, by adding another ' - = ' to the su=20 statement so as to accept the environment variables for the user created = to run=20 rotatelogs, it nolonger tries to kill roots shell. so now the directive=20 is:
 
CustomLog "| su - -c=20 '/usr/sbin/rotatelogs
/var/log/httpd/apache2mysql/apache2mysql_log_bun= ny=20 3600' logsync" mysql
 
and error_log returns
 
[Tue Jul 10 10:25:34 2001] [notice] = Apache/1.3.12=20 (Unix)  (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_ssl/2.8.1 OpenSSL/0.9.6 DAV/1.0.2=20 PHP/4.
0.4pl1 mod_perl/1.24_01 configured -- resuming normal=20 operations
 
once again thanks for giving me places = to=20 search.

 
 
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