Re: Apache log files

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc linuxweasel com> writes:

> On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 14:02 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
> > On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 14:30 +0100, Thomas Wood wrote:
> > > I noticed that the access log file for art.gnome.org has grown to over 
> > > 13GB, which seems rather a waste of resources on window.gnome.org. 
> > > Although the main apache log file seems to be rotated, it looks like 
> > > the other sites on gnome.org which have their own separate log files do 
> > > not have log rotate. Perhaps it would be a good idea to have log rotate 
> > > running on each of these files to keep the size of the logs down.
> > 
> > /etc/logrotate.d/httpd-gnome is supposed to do that. Can someone debug?
> 
> OK, I'm game.  :-)
> 
> Looks like that logrotate script tries to rotate all files ending in
> log.  However, none of the conf files in sites.d write out filenames
> ending in log, instead they write out to "access" and "error".  I think
> the best solution here is to edit all of those files to make them write
> out "access_log" and "error_log" as the master config does.
> 
> Any objections to making this change?

Sounds great to me.

-Jonathan