rotatelogs

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NAME

rotatelogs - rotate Apache logs without having to kill the server

SYNOPSIS

rotatelogs logfile rotationtime

DESCRIPTION

rotatelogs is a simple program for use in conjunction with Apache’s piped logfile feature which can be used like this:

TransferLog "|rotatelogs /path/to/logs/access_log 86400"

This creates the files /path/to/logs/access_log.nnnn where nnnn is the system time at which the log nominally starts (this time will always be a multiple of the rotation time, so you can synchronize cron scripts with it). At the end of each rotation time (here after 24 hours) a new log is started.

OPTIONS

logfile

The path plus basename of the logfile. The suffix .nnnn is automatically added.

rotationtime

The rotation time in seconds.

SEE ALSO

httpd(8)