Rotating access_log - keeps creating new files. 2

[stla]

I edited my httpd.conf file adding this line:

CustomLog "|/usr/freeware/apache/sbin/rotatelogs /usr/freeware/apache/var/log/access_log 86400" common

My goal was to rotate the access log on a daily basis, ie. old and new. The problem is it keeps generating a new log every day with a time stamp suffix.

Does anyone know if my goal is achievable?

Best regards

 

[feherke]

Hi

I do not think you can do that. The [tt]rotatelogs[/tt] utility provided by Apache is not a full feature log rotating tool.

While you seems to be on a Unix/Unix-like operating system, look at [tt]logrotate[/tt]. Usually is part of the base install and can be instructed to keep only a given number of old files.

See man logrotate for usage and configuration file syntax.

Feherke.

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[thedaver]

You should use logrotate and "apachectl graceful"

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