I host some relatively steady volume virtual domains and in order to keep the log access files to a reasonable size I logrotate them once every night and only keep 10 days worth. The logrotate works fine with typically access_log access_log.1 access_log.2 .3 .4 .5 etc happening as expected, the problem is that only one of those files receives the log information, even as it's name changes! So typically access_log.1, .2, .3 for instance are all 0b while .4 continues to grow into the megabytes until it is deleted.
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Any help/pointers/ideas greatly appreciated, I can't even think what to google.
Many years ago, when I was setting up RHL 3.0.3 or so, I read the instructions for rotating Apache logs.
On *x you can rename files while they're open and that's what you're doing. Changing the file's name does not affect rw operations for technical reasons I won't go into beyond noting that the name of a file is not its real identifier, just as a host name is not the real identifier for a computer - both are aliases that have to be converted to numbers.
What you need to do is make Apache reopen its files, and this is accomplished by the various reload/restart options.
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