rotatelogs
Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: March 2001
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NAME
rotatelogs - rotate Apache logs without having to kill the server
SYNOPSIS
rotatelogs
logfile
rotationtime
[offset]
DESCRIPTION
rotatelogs
is a simple program for use in conjunction with Apache's piped logfile
feature which can be used like this:
TransferLog "| rotatelogs /path/to/logs/access_log 86400"
This creates the files /path/to/logs/access_log.nnnn where nnnn is the system
time at which the log nominally starts (this time will always be a multiple of
the rotation time, so you can synchronize cron scripts with it). At the end
of each rotation time (here after 24 hours) a new log is started.
OPTIONS
- logfile
-
The path plus basename of the logfile. If logfile includes any
Otherwise, the suffix .nnnn is automatically added and is the time at which
the logfile was created.
- rotationtime
-
The rotation time in seconds.
- offset
-
The number of minutes offset from UTC. If omitted, zero is assumed and
UTC is used. For example, to use local time in the zone UTC -5 hours,
specify a value of -300 for this argument.
SEE ALSO
httpd(8)
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