Re: Log rotation question

[Kirk Bauer]

On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Chris Edillon wrote:

>   you could do the obvious "Sunday.Hr23.Min30" or whenever the
> last cfagent run is scheduled for sunday night.  or, if you know
> approximately how large your log files get in a day, you could
> use the size option.  or some combination of all:
> 
>   disable:
>       Sunday.Hr23::
>           /var/log/httpd/access_log  rotate=52  size=<1000
> 
> that will rotate the log on sunday night at 2300 hours, if
> the log is greater than 1MB (assuming that it will get rotated
> the first time cfagent runs that hour, and it won't grow to
> 1MB within that hour).  depending on how fast your log fills
> up you should change the size accordingly.

That's a good idea... I was hoping there was a "cleaner" way to do it...
but I'll use this if there is not a better option ;)

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