Re: [cobalt-users] log files & rotation

["MikeM" <MyRaQ@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/10/01 at 7:27 AM David Thurman wrote:

|on 9-10-01 1:41 AM, Chris Fragogiannis at franki@xxxxxxxx was reported to
|have made a statement that said this:
|
|> I would like to ask if the web.log files of the virtual sites are
|rotated. The
|> script 'logrotate' in the daily cron does rotate only the system 
|> log files or the virtual sites log files, too?
|
|Chris,
|I called Cobalt and asked the same question, we use AWSTATS for web
|statistics and noticed they where not rotating as we wanted. They claim
|when
|the log files reach a certain point they will move over. They do not rotate
|on a daily basis per the tech at Cobalt.
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Hmmm...  I'm not sure I agree, maybe my reading of the scripts is incorrect.

Starting at the cron.daily directory, there is a script called logrotate.  All that script does is run logrotate with the config file /etc/logrotate.conf

logrotate.conf looks innocuous enough, until to notice the inclusion of /etc/logrotate.d directory.

In the /etc/logrotate.d directory, there is a file for apache.  One of the sections for that file refers to the access log files.  

The following parameters, among others, are configured for the rotation of the access file:
- rotate daily
- run split_logs before the rotation is performed



This tells me that the web access log files are split into the various web.log files on a daily basis, regardless of the size of the Apache access log file.   

Where did I go astray?