Apache log rotate configuration

bentech4u · 12-04-2018, 09:44 PM

HI

i was trying to configure logrotate for my apache server and it's not working properly.

here is my lodrotate configuration

Code:

/var/log/httpd/*log {
    daily
    missingok
    notifempty
    sharedscripts
    compress
    delaycompress
    postrotate
        /sbin/service httpd reload > /dev/null 2>/dev/null || true
    endscript
}

And here is the logs directory

Code:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root         1 Dec  4 09:10 jk-runtime-status.5767.lock
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root         0 Dec  5 03:23 ssl_request_log
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root         0 Dec  5 03:23 ssl_error_log
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root         0 Dec  5 03:23 ssl_access_log
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root         0 Dec  5 03:23 rewrite.log
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root         0 Dec  5 03:23 mod_jk.log
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root         0 Dec  5 03:23 error_log
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root         0 Dec  5 03:23 access_log
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root      5274 Dec  5 04:19 ssl_error_log-20181205
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root     47198 Dec  5 06:10 error_log-20181205
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root  11131982 Dec  5 06:13 ssl_request_log-20181205
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root   9037654 Dec  5 06:13 ssl_access_log-20181205
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 514548359 Dec  5 06:13 rewrite.log-20181205
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      6080 Dec  5 06:13 jk-runtime-status.5767
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root   7457352 Dec  5 06:13 mod_jk.log-20181205
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root  57777013 Dec  5 06:13 access_log-20181205

as you can see log is rotated with date ext but apache is still writing logs to rotated file no to new files(new files size is 0 bytes)

Thanks & Regards,
Ben

bathory · 12-05-2018, 05:33 AM

Hi,

You didn't mention your distro and version, but I guess you're using apache-2.2x as you have a separate rewrite.log.
If that's the case, following is a stock Centos-6 httpd logrotate script:

Code:

/var/log/httpd/*log {
    missingok
    notifempty
    sharedscripts
    delaycompress
    postrotate
        /sbin/service httpd reload > /dev/null 2>/dev/null || true
    endscript
}

Regards

bentech4u · 12-05-2018, 09:34 AM

cannot do from http conf file as directory has 7 types of log files

i have changes conf file with

Code:

 /var/log/httpd/*log {
    daily
    missingok
    rotate 52
    compress
    delaycompress
    notifempty
    sharedscripts
    postrotate
        /sbin/service httpd reload > /dev/null 2>/dev/null || true
    endscript
}

renamed all log files without date ext.

ran : logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.d/httpd

and it created log with.1 extension

Code:

drwxrwxr-x.  2 root root    4096 Dec  5 08:52 .
drwxr-xr-x. 16 root root    4096 Dec  3 13:39 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  143348 Dec  5 08:52 access_log.1
-rw-r--r--   1 root root    3411 Dec  5 08:51 error_log.1
-rw-r--r--   1 root root    6080 Dec  5 08:52 jk-runtime-status.28481
-rw-r--r--   1 root root       1 Dec  5 08:49 jk-runtime-status.28481.lock
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   13395 Dec  5 08:52 mod_jk.log.1
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 1522929 Dec  5 08:52 rewrite.log.1
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   28671 Dec  5 08:52 ssl_access_log.1
-rw-r--r--   1 root root     250 Dec  5 08:49 ssl_error_log.1
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   35003 Dec  5 08:52 ssl_request_log.1