On 06/25/2010 04:03 PM, Eric Shubert wrote:
> It appears that there are 2 ways of rotating apache logs.
> 
> Logrotate can be used, in which case apache needs to be restarted after
> the logs are rotated.

Yes, but this is usually a graceful restart, at least.

> There is also a rotatelogs program included with apache that controls
> log rotation (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/programs/rotatelogs.html).
> 
> Does anyone have a preference, or know which is considered to be best
> practice? I'm inclined to lean toward the later.

I've always used the system log rotator (logrotate, logadm, etc). If
you're concerned about the effects of a restart you could try
logrotate's copytruncate option.