newsyslog and apache

[Noah]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 21:37:47 -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote
> At 5:19 PM -0800 3/22/04, Noah wrote:
> >
> >I ask that you please be specific as to what you think is wrong
> >with my newsyslog.conf file because I cant seem to figure out
> >what you are talking about here?  Looks like my newsyslog.conf
> >file matches the recommended config:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I do not run apache at all, but I am the guy who has done the
> most-recent work on the newsyslog command.
> 
> If I were to guess, I think your problem might be that you end
> up sending multiple USR1 signals to apache.  I haven't looked
> at the code recently, but I think the freebsd newsyslog still
> does not optimize the number of signal's that it sends to a
> single process.
> 
> What I would suggest you try is some kind of staggered setup.
> (it's an easy thing to try...).  Something like:
> 
> .../www.domain1.com/access_log  640 30  *  @T00  ZN
> .../www.domain1.com/error_log   640 30  *  @T00  Z 
>  /var/run/httpd.pid 30 .../www.domain2.org/access_log  640 30  * 
>  @T02  ZN .../www.domain2.org/error_log   640 30  *  @T02  Z 
>  /var/run/httpd.pid 30 .../www.domain3.com/access_log  640 30  * 
>  @T04  ZN .../www.domain3.com/error_log   640 30  *  @T04  Z 
>  /var/run/httpd.pid 30
> 

okay I have done this but I am about 12 levels in and getting the following
response from newsyslog


--- snip ---

# newsyslog
newsyslog: malformed 'at' value:
/usr/local/www/logs/www.domain12.com/access_log   644  30    *   @T24
ZN


--- snip ---


do you have any clue why this is happening?


cheers,

Noah


> (the ...'s are just an attempt to avoid line-wrapping in this
> message.  you still want the full pathname in the control file)
> 
> The idea is to rotate the log-and-error files for any one domain
> at the same time, and only specify the pid once for that group.
> And then wait two minutes between the files for each domain name.
> 
> See if that helps you at all.
> 
> -- 
> Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
> Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad at freebsd.org
> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu
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