log file rotation

[Peter Murray]

--On Thursday, January 10, 2002 8:20 AM -0800 Elizabeth Myers 225-231-3720 
<ebadeaux at ebr.lib.la.us> wrote:
> Does anyone out there have experience with log file rotation?  [...]
> What I would like to do is to have a new log file starting at midnight
> of each day and keep the old log files indefinitely for right now, until
> we figure out how long we want to keep them, storage methods, etc.

I use a program called 'httplog' to automatically rotate log files:

  <http://freshmeat.net/projects/httplog/>

Apache has the option to log to the standard input of another program 
('httplog' in this case) rather than just to a file.  You give 'httplog' a 
filename specification, and it automatically closes, compresses, and opens 
a new log file at the time you specify.



Peter
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Peter Murray, Computer Services Librarian              W: 860-570-5233
University of Connecticut Law School             Hartford, Connecticut