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From: csuley@best.com (Christopher Suley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Newbie: Rotating logfile monthly
Date: 9 Jan 1997 20:57:16 -0800
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Dannyman <dannyman@dannyland.org> wrote:
>Wanna rotate my Apache access_log, and other similiar such beasties,
>every month. Basically, rename the thing with the likes of
>access_log-[jan-dec]-1997, etc and maybe run compress on it.
Here's a quick sh script I hacked up to rotate the Apache logs on
our FreeBSD box. As the header comment and coding style show, I'm
not a Unix or sh guru, but this seems to work for me.
#!/bin/sh
# Rotate www logs. DON'T RUN THIS IF YOU AREN'T ROOT. IT WON'T WORK.
cd /home/web/www/server/logs/
today=`date "+%m%d%y"`
if ( test -f access_log ) then
if ( test -f error_log ) then
mv access_log access_log.$today ; \
mv error_log error_log.$today ; \
kill -1 `cat httpd.pid`
else
mv access_log access_log.$today ; \
kill -1 `cat httpd.pid`
fi
else
if ( test -f error_log ) then
mv error_log error_log.$today ; \
kill -1 `cat httpd.pid`
fi
fi
if ( test -f access_log.$today ) then
gzip access_log.$today
chown web access_log.$today.gz
fi
if ( test -f error_log.$today ) then
gzip error_log.$today
chown web error_log.$today.gz
fi
Hope this helps!
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