newsyslog and apache

[Zbigniew Szalbot]

Hello,

2008/10/2 Jerry <gesbbb at yahoo.com>:
> On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:20:50 +0200
> "DA Forsyth" <d.forsyth at ru.ac.za> wrote:
>
>>I used to have one big apache log file, but decided to rotate it once
>>a month using newsyslog.
>>
>>However, now apache stops and does not restart when the log is
>>rotated.
>>
>>line from newsyslog.conf
>>/var/log/apache/httpd-access.log        640 13     *    $M1D8 B
>>  /var/run/httpd.pid 30
>>
>>with a similar one for the error log.
>>
>>I have to manually start apache after this rotates the log.
>>
>>I alos see that 'apachectl restart' stops apache but it doesn't
>>restart.
>>
>>any ideas?
>
>
> I use 'rotatelogs':

No need to change log rotation software since the problem clearly is
somewhere else. You need to inspect Apache's error logs to see why it
cannot start.

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Zbigniew Szalbot