rotatelogs is rotating too quickly...
John Almberg
jalmberg at identry.com
Wed Aug 20 12:58:55 UTC 2008
I'm a newbie admin and I've just figure out something that will be
obvious to most on this list... that apache log files can get big, fast.
I did a df for another reason the other day and was surprised to see
my /var partition at 85% full.
Anyway, I did some googling and decided to use rotatelogs to do just
that.
Now... I've updated all my apache config files to use rotate logs,
like this:
ErrorLog "|/usr/local/sbin/rotatelogs /var/log/www/nes.com-error.log.
%Y-%m-%d-%H_%M_%S 86400"
CustomLog "|/usr/local/sbin/rotatelogs /var/log/www/nes.com-
access.log.%Y-%m-%d-%H_%M_%S 5M" combined
Unless I am blind and not seeing something, this is right out of the
man page.
The problem is that the access logs are rolling over very quickly...
no where near the 5 Meg I expected. It's not quite every access, but
almost.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5147 Aug 20 08:19 nes.com-access.log.
2008-08-20-12_19_25
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 204 Aug 20 08:21 nes.com-access.log.
2008-08-20-12_20_58
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 195 Aug 20 08:24 nes.com-access.log.
2008-08-20-12_24_24
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 204 Aug 20 08:26 nes.com-access.log.
2008-08-20-12_26_15
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 181 Aug 20 08:29 nes.com-access.log.
2008-08-20-12_28_44
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 181 Aug 20 08:31 nes.com-access.log.
2008-08-20-12_31_35
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 204 Aug 20 08:34 nes.com-access.log.
2008-08-20-12_34_25
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 284 Aug 20 08:37 nes.com-access.log.
2008-08-20-12_36_56
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 710 Aug 20 08:45 nes.com-access.log.
2008-08-20-12_40_09
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3364 Aug 20 08:38 nes.com-error.log.
2008-08-20-00_00_00
I've been scratching my head over this for an hour, but can't see
anything wrong. Any hints much appreciated.
-- John
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