Re: Rotating apache logs

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Author: Eric Shubert
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Rotating apache logs
Alex Dean wrote:
>
> On Jul 1, 2010, at 4:32 PM, Eric Shubert wrote:
>
>> Thanks Shawn. Do you still use cronolog? If not, what are you
>> presently using?
>>
>> I'm also wondering, does cronolog allow me to rotate logs without
>> renaming every one? I'd like them to keep the same name so that they
>> don't get backed up repeatedly with rsync each time the name changes.
>
> No idea about cronolog, but the logrotate program allows you to use a
> date-based extension for your rotated files, rather than the normal
> blah.log.1, blah.log.2, etc. Use the 'dateext' keyword in your
> logrotate.conf file.
>
> "dateext: Archive old versions of log files adding a daily extension
> like YYYYMMDD instead of simply adding a number."
> http://linux.die.net/man/8/logrotate
>
> alex


Great, Alex. Thanks.

--
-Eric 'shubes'

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