Re: rotatate logs - Apache has anyone got this to rotate at a specific time?

From: kathy duret <katpopins21_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:14:55 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <20627.54388.qm_at_web38208.mail.mud.yahoo.com>



actual I have 2.2 on the one and it isn't working.  
the 1.3 is actually working better go figure.  
Kathy
  • On Mon, 10/19/09, Mark Weaver <mark-clist_at_npsl.co.uk> wrote:

From: Mark Weaver <mark-clist_at_npsl.co.uk> Subject: Re: rotatate logs - Apache has anyone got this to rotate at a specific time? To: "kathy duret" <katpopins21_at_yahoo.com> Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org, ora-apps-dba_at_freelists.org Date: Monday, October 19, 2009, 1:51 PM

On 19/10/2009 7:37 PM, kathy duret wrote:
> tried it on both Apache 1.3 and 2.0 no dice
> 86400 basically rotates it every 24 hours.
>

As I said below, the rotate at midnight feature is only documented for apache >= 2.2.  You either need a newer rotatelogs or a different method of log rotation.

> I am having issues trying to even force a log rotation.
> So much fun so little time.
> kathy
>
> --- On *Fri, 10/16/09, Mark Weaver /<mark-clist_at_npsl.co.uk>/* wrote:
>
>
>     From: Mark Weaver <mark-clist_at_npsl.co.uk>
>     Subject: Re: rotatate logs - Apache has anyone got this to rotate at
>     a specific time?
>     To: katpopins21_at_yahoo.com
>     Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
>     Date: Friday, October 16, 2009, 4:30 PM
>
>     On 16/10/2009 4:26 PM, kathy duret wrote:
>      > I am using the rotatelog function for my Apache logs.
>      > ErrorLog "|/u01/Apache/Apache/bin/rotatelogs
>      >
>     /u01/app/oracle/product/sso10g/Apache/Apache/logs/error_log.%Y%m%d
>     86400"
>      > While this does rotate the logs every 24 hours with a datetime, I
>      > specifically need to have it run at midnight.
>      > Yes, I have an SR open and yet I posted to Apache forums.
>      > There is a transferlog function but I haven't been able to get
>     this to work
>      > I thought if I could manually force a rotate, then I could just cron
>      > this to go at midnight.
>
>     Which version of apache is it?
>
>     http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/programs/rotatelogs.html
>
>     states that "if the rotation time is 86400, the log file will be
>     rotated every night at midnight", although:
>
>     http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/programs/rotatelogs.html
>
>     does not. It should be easy enough to grab/use the rotatelogs from a
>     newer version of apache though.
>
>     You also need to consider when midnight is -- it has options for
>     making it run in localtime or at specific UTC offsets, but by
>     default it runs in UTC.
>
>

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