Rotating apache logs

[Alex Dean]

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