Re: Apache log files

[Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc linuxweasel com>]

On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 21:50 -0400, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> 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.

OK, config files changed, existing logs renamed, httpd restarted.
Everything looks fine, logrotate should pick things up next time around.

Anyone aware of a reason that logrotate isn't set to compress logs?
	Greg

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Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc linuxweasel com>