[lug] Rotating Apache Log files

[Hugh Brown]

man logrotate

Someone has already done much of  the work for you.

You might also name the files 2001-07-28.... lexical ordering is the same
as ordering by date in that format.

Hugh


"Greg Horne"
> 
> Some of my sites generate many hits and the log file gets real big, manually 
> deleting lines is tiring.  I'm trying to rotate my log files from various 
> websites in this manner:
> 
> access_log ---------------> Todays log
> 07-02-01.access_log ------> Yesterdays
> 07-01-01.access_log ------> Day before that
> 
> Basically I will 'mv' access_log at the end of the day to a new file named 
> according to the date, then restart apache thus creating access_log again 
> all ready for the next day.  When I say put the date before the 'access_log' 
> part i mean call the 'date' command and use it.  Like.....
> 
> -------rotate_logs---------
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> TODAY='date'
> WEBDIR="/home/www"
> 
> mv $WEBDIR/website/logs/access_log $WEBDIR/website/logs/$TODAY.access_log