I wrote a simple perl script to run as a cron job at midnight that copies the web acess log file to another directory and stamps the filename with the date. I did this to prevent the log file from becoming too large and unmanageable. The script also deletes the log file and then creates a new blank file for new logs. However, the apache server doesn't recognize the new file unless the web server is restarted. Is there some other way to get apache to recognize the new log file? Or is there a better way to do access log archiving?
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