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KGB

2 July 2009, 21:32

Is there a way to rotate logs w/o restarting hiawatha (lost established connections)?

Hiawatha version:
Operating System:

Hugo Leisink

3 July 2009, 00:32

The program 'logrotate' was made to do that. It comes with every Linux distro and BSD variant.

KGB

3 July 2009, 00:44

ok, but if logrotate moves files hiawatha don't start log in new files

Hugo Leisink

3 July 2009, 01:12

No, you should let logrotate create new logfiles. Use this logrotate configuration to start with:

/var/log/hiawatha/access.log {
    weekly
    compress
    delaycompress
    rotate 52
    missingok
    create 640 www-data www-data
    sharedscripts
}

It was made for Debian Linux. It probably needs some editing for FreeBSD.

KGB

3 July 2009, 01:33

ok this works fine. before i had wrong permissions, sorry.

Hugo Leisink

3 July 2009, 09:35

No problem. Glad I could help.

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