Apache log rotation question...

[Philip Hallstrom]

> I'm wondering if I can safely use newsyslog with a newsyslog.conf with these 
> lines in it:

I don't know the answer to your question, but you might look at 
cronolog...

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/sysutils/cronolog/pkg-descr



>
> /var/log/httpd/access_log/*            644  1     *    $W0D0 G
> /var/log/httpd/error_log/*             644  1     *    $W0D0 G
> /var/log/httpd/ssl_request.log         644  1     *    $W0D0
> /var/log/httpd/error.log               644  1     *    $W0D0
> # After this point should be one line...
> /var/log/httpd/access.log              644  1     *    $W0D0 - 
> /var/run/httpd.pid 30
>
> or if not, what should I do instead?
>
> (I have 4 separate vhosts that keep their access logs in the first 2 
> directories)
>
> For the record, I want weekly rotation on Sundays at midnight (I assume JST, 
> since I have my time set to local time, which is JST [GMT+9, no DST]), 
> keeping 1 log, (the way I read the fine manuals, I'll have to have a cron job 
> bzip2 it up later and move it aside if I want to keep more and/or compress 
> them) permissions 644 with the owner being root:wheel, no size check, and the 
> last part of the last line should send a SIGUSR1 (30) signal to Apache, which 
> should do the equivalent of a 'apachectl -k graceful' per 
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/stopping.html.
>
> My question really is, does newsyslog send the signal at the right time 
> [after the rotation is done, per 
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/logs.html#rotation] and does it do the lines 
> in order???)
>
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