Please help, simple question about domlogs

lexington · 07-15-2004, 02:48 PM

Hello, when I look in /usr/local/apache/dmlogs, I see files like this for example:

mysite.com
mysite.com-bytes_log
mysite.com-bytes_log.offset

I host a few sites that have HUGE files about this, is it safe to emtpy these files? If so, how do I do it? Or can I simply delete them and new files will be generated? Thanks

MasterC · 07-16-2004, 12:57 AM

Look at em. See what's in there, if it looks like log files you'd like to keep around, then back em up first. I'd probably bring down my server first, then remove the files, touch new ones, and be on my way. I am pretty sure though that apache will create the log files if none exists, so you can likely just remove them, and not even bother with bringing down the server and touching new ones.

Cool

ppuru · 07-16-2004, 01:29 AM

have you looked at logrotate to do this job for you?

MasterC · 07-16-2004, 01:30 AM

Could you exand on or link to logrotate?

Cool

ppuru · 07-16-2004, 04:27 AM

You can create a file httpd in /etc/logrotate.d with the contents as below

Quote:

/usr/local/apache2/logs/*log {
missingok
notifempty
sharedscripts
postrotate
/bin/kill -HUP `cat /usr/local/apache2/logs/httpd.pid 2>/dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
endscript
}

Of course you may need to modify it to suit your environment.

edit /etc/logrotate.conf and configure it to suit your requirements (e.g. how many weeks worth of log you want to maintain, whether you want to maintain the old logs as plain text or compressed ...)