rotatelogs

rotatelogs

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS SEE ALSO

NAME

rotatelogs - rotate Apache logs without having to kill the server

SYNOPSIS

rotatelogs logfile rotationtime [offset?

DESCRIPTION

rotatelogs is a simple program for use in conjunction with Apache's piped logfile feature which can be used like this:

TransferLog?

This creates the files /path/to/logs/access.log.nnnn where nnnn is the system time at which the log nominally starts (this time will always be a multiple of the rotation time, so you can synchronize cron scripts with it). At the end of each rotation time (here after 24 hours) a new log is started.

OPTIONS

logfile

The path plus basename of the logfile. If logfile includes any % characters, it is treated as a format string for strftime(3). Otherwise, the suffix .nnnn is automatically added and is the time at which the logfile was created.

rotationtime

The rotation time in seconds.

offset

The number of minutes offset from UTC. If omitted, zero is assumed and UTC is used. For example, to use local time in the zone UTC -5 hours, specify a value of -300 for this argument.

SEE ALSO

__apache(8)?__