Getting apache to work with logrotate.

abefroman · 09-23-2017, 10:24 AM

What is wrong with this logrotate configuration? It seems it doesn't like the * in the path/file name. And /bin/killall -HUP httpd doesn't seem to restart apache, to generate new logs if I rotate them manually.

Code:

domlogs]# logrotate --force /etc/logrotate.conf
error: /etc/logrotate.conf:41 unexpected log filename
error: found error in /etc/http/logs/*log /etc/http/domlogs/*.log , skipping

Code:

/etc/http/logs/*log /etc/http/domlogs/*.log {
    missingok
    daily
    size 10M
    maxage 60
    /bin/killall -HUP httpd
}

Thanks in advance.

scasey · 09-23-2017, 01:58 PM

Assuming CentOS from your profile...
You don't say what version of CentOS you're using, but pre 7, I have:

Code:

postrotate
    /sbin/service httpd reload > /dev/null 2>/dev/null || true
endscript

for the reload [note: it is not necessary to restart httpd, only to reload it]
for CentOS 7 it's:

Code:

postrotate
    /bin/systemctl reload httpd.service > /dev/null 2>/dev/null || true
endscript

Not sure what logrotate doesn't like about the filenames, unless that's not where the logfiles actually are. Mine are rotated happily with /var/log/http/*log [note: no '.']

bathory · 09-23-2017, 04:40 PM

@OP

You get this error because your forgot to use postrotate/endscript when restarting the httpd daemon

Code:

/etc/http/logs/*log /etc/http/domlogs/*.log {
    missingok
    daily
    size 10M
    maxage 60
    postrotate
      /bin/killall -HUP httpd
    endscript
}