Re: [cobalt-users] rotating logs (raq3)

[Mark Buchanan <mbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I have the same log rotate problems. And I get no usage stats generated at
all.

Cobalt support have told me there is still problems with the split_logs
system, and to watch the download page for new patches..

When they didn't say...

Mark Buchanan

> From: "Matthews, Graham" <gmatthews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 09:39:46 +1000
> To: "'cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] rotating logs (raq3)
> 
> Hi, I was the other person Dan mentioned who was having troubles.
> 
> Those site specific logrotate files all look good on my system
> (I have 9 vsites btw.).
> 
> I'm pretty sure that the problem is not really with the logrotate,
> but with split_logs, which dies after a couple of hundred lines
> into my access log:
> `/usr/local/sbin/split_logs web < /var/log/httpd/access`
> is coming back with "Broken Pipe".
> 
> I've ruled out memory as being a problem, by running top while
> doing split_logs, and there is always plenty of memory (and
> inodes) available.
> 
> I'm running the latest patched split_logs (it was busted before
> and after applying the patch).
> 
> - Graham
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Paul Ramsey [mailto:pramsey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Friday, 26 May 2000 15:14
>> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] rotating logs (raq3)
>> 
>> 
>> In your /etc/logrotate.d directory, are there site1, site2, etc config
>> files for the sites you want the logs rotated for? If so, do they have
>> the right info as far as the location and names of your logs?
>> 
>> Dan Heller wrote:
>>> 
>>> someone said that their RaQ3 isn't rotating logs. I found
>>> the same thing to be true on my system. Looking around, I see
>>> that the cron.daily has what it needs:
>>> % cat cron.daily/logrotate
>>> #!/bin/sh
>>> 
>>> /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf
>>> 
>>> ---
>>> I assume this is sufficient. The logrotate.conf has:
>>> 
>>> % cat logrotate.conf
>>> # rotate log files weekly
>>> weekly
>>> 
>>> # keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs
>>> rotate 1
>>> 
>>> # send errors to root
>>> errors root
>>> 
>>> # create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
>>> create
>>> 
>>> # uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
>>> compress
>>> 
>>> # Put in a generic size limit so things don't go wild
>>> size 1M
>>> 
>>> # RPM packages drop log rotation information into this directory
>>> include /etc/logrotate.d
>>> 
>>> So, the question is, why arne't the logs rotated? My web server
>>> access log is over 70M now.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> --dan
>>> 
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