Rolling Access Logs

On 2006.10.18, Steve Manning <steveMANNING.NET> wrote:
> I have a small problem with access logs for
www.fancydress.com whereby
> they have started to grow beyond the 2gig limit of my
O/S. I'm using the
> nslog module to roll the logs daily at the moment but
I'm wondering of
> there is a way to roll the logs based on their size (as
with logrotates
> size parameter) or if I can tell nslog to roll more
than once per day
> (with the rollhour parameter perhaps)? Failing that
I'll switch to using
> SIGHUP from cron or logrotate and turn off the inbuilt
logrotation -
> although I'd prefer not to.

You can also use a scheduled proc to perform logrolling and
implement
your own custom logic to decide how and when to roll logs
(by size,
periodically, etc.).

-- Dossy

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your own
    folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on."
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On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 10:50:55PM +0100, Steve Manning
wrote:

> I have a small problem with access logs for
www.fancydress.com whereby
> they have started to grow beyond the 2gig limit of my
O/S. I'm using the
> nslog module to roll the logs daily at the moment but
I'm wondering of
> there is a way to roll the logs based on their size (as
with logrotates
> size parameter) or if I can tell nslog to roll more
than once per day

You could try Mayoff's dqd_log with multilog: 

  http://dqd.
com/~mayoff/aolserver/#dqd_log

Dossy's suggestion to write a custom scheduled proc may be
simpler,
though.

-- 
Andrew Piskorski <atppiskorski.com>
http://www.piskorski.com/


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