log files rotation

[Mark Blackman]

As the port maintainer, I'm obliged to point out that
sysutils/cronolog is a very nice tool to point your
logging at. :)  As you get log file names based on the
current time and date, you automatically get log rotation.

I believe it's been mentioned in this thread already.

- Mark


> On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, at 08:57 PM, Pete French wrote:
> 
> >> newsyslog(8) and /etc/newsyslog.conf is rotating the log files in
> >> freebsd, may be you could use it to rotate the apache logs, i`m
> >> using it actually..
> >
> > Caveat: It restrats your websever - this kills any processes which 
> > might be
> > running in it when the logs rotate. I found this out the hard way 
> > (database
> > corruption due to incomplete writes from a CGI script when the logs 
> > rotated)
> 
> You might also consider switching to a database engine that does 
> transactions since cgis can stop dead for other reasons.
> 
> 
> Robin Melville
> Addiction Information
> Nottingham Alcohol & Drug Team
> 
> 
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