rotatelogs is rotating too quickly...

[Riaan Kruger]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 2:58 PM, John Almberg <jalmberg at identry.com> wrote:

> 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
>
That does not look like 5 Meg but 5 Minutes.

Riaan