On 5/17/05, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Bob Brennan wrote: > > On 5/17/05, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >>Bob Brennan wrote: > >> > >>>On 5/17/05, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> > >>>>>You need to get the server to close the log file and reopen it (which > >>>> > >>>>will access the new file). This is usually done by using a "postrotate" > >>>>script in logrotate that sends an appropriate signal to the server. For > >>>>example, in the standard FC3 httpd logrotate file, there is: > >>>> > >>>> postrotate > >>>> /bin/kill -USR1 `cat /var/run/httpd.pid 2>/dev/null` 2> > >>>>/dev/null || /bin/true > >>>> endscript > >>> > >>> > >>>Thanks Paul - looking in my own logrotate file for httpd I find: > >>>"/bin/kill -USR1 `cat /var/run/httpd.pid 2>/dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true" > >>>as the postrotate command, nearly the same as your line except for the > >>>/bin/true part. > >>> > >>>I will put that postrotate command into my less critical site's > >>>logrotate files and see what happens over the next few days, then put > >>>it into all logrotates that exhibit the problem. > >> > >>The "|| true" probably won't make any difference; it just keeps > >>logrotate happy that the script has run, even if there's been an error. > >> > >>Are you sure that /var/run/httpd.pid has the PID of your httpd process? > > > > > > $ pidof httpd > > 19554 19305 19212 19208 19186 19180 19054 19006 15738 3888 > > > > /var/run/httpd.pid has only "3888" in it > > > > is this correct? > > If you do: > > $ ps uax -H > > does it show all the other processes being children of 3888? If so, > that's OK. root 3888 0.0 2.7 28164 14016 ? Ss May14 0:02 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 19006 0.2 4.5 39056 23492 ? S 10:15 0:57 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 19054 0.3 4.4 38472 22916 ? S 10:58 0:56 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 19180 0.2 4.4 38584 23076 ? S 11:24 0:48 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 19186 0.3 4.4 38540 22976 ? S 11:26 0:56 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 19208 0.3 4.4 38540 22984 ? S 11:30 0:52 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 19212 0.2 4.5 38772 23336 ? S 11:30 0:41 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 19305 0.3 4.4 38484 22988 ? S 11:31 0:57 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 19554 0.2 4.4 38584 23144 ? S 12:42 0:36 /usr/sbin/httpd looks ok! (?) bob
