Apache log rotation

[Nicolas Blais]

On October 19, 2005 04:54 am, Olivier Nicole wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If one install Apache from the ports, the logs go in /var/log, namely
> in:
>
> ssl_request_log
> httpd-access.log
> ssl_engine_log
> httpd-error.log
>
> Is there a clean way to rotate these logs a la newsyslog?
>
> I know I can use newsyslog to rotate them, but then how to notify
> Apache to use the new log files? I don't expect a signal HUP sent to
> httpd would be enough.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Olivier
>

I use ports/sysutils/cronolog/ which does a great job "transparently".

Nicolas.
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