[techtalk] Re: Rotating apache logs

[David Merrill]

On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 09:30:39AM -0700, Seageraves Caren wrote:
> David,
> 
> Sorry to be reqponding so late here, but even late, I
> feel I need to suggest using cronolog to rotate you
> apache logs rather than cron + logrotate. 
> (http://www.ford-mason.co.uk/resources/cronolog/)
> 
> Cronolog has worked really well for us.  When we used
> log rotate we had problems if our servers eperienced
> significant load when the logs were rotated.  

Is that the only problem you had? If so, I'll stick with what I have.
It works. :-)

And, this is just my personal web site with some resources used by the
LDP staff. So, a big load is not an issue for me. It just doesn't
happen.

Thanks for the info, though. If I ever have problems due to load,
which is conceivable since I just started mirroring the LDP as well,
then I will look at cronolog.

> --- David Merrill <david at lupercalia.net> wrote:
> > I'm configuring webalizer on my machine and am
> > scheduling a cron job
> > to process the web logs. I need to make sure the
> > processing of web
> > logs happens *before* the log rotator. The log
> > rotator is called from
> > a script in cron.monthly, and the log processor is
> > going to be in
> > cron.hourly (for now).
> > 
> > Can anyone tell me whether scripts in
> > /etc/cron.hourly are guaranteed
> > to run *before* those in cron.daily, and .daily
> > before .weekly, etc.,
> > etc.? The manpage for cron doesn't say anything
> > about it.
> > 
> > TIA,
> > 
> > -- 
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