Rotating web server logs without restarting Apache

[Darren Henderson]

On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Ladislav Bodnar wrote:

> Every time my httpd-access.log file is rotated I need to restart Apache,
> otherwise it won't write into the new httpd-access.log file.

Use apache's logrotate if you never want to stop apache.

If you don't mind the restart you can use newsyslog to role the logs - 
I've never had it fail to keep apache going.

-Darren

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