Comments on: Lighttpd rotating log files with logrotate tool

By: Ela

Ela — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:02:17 +0000

Am getting this problem very biggly

Please help me out

vi /etc/logrotate.conf
# see “man logrotate” for details
# rotate log files weekly
weekly

# keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs
rotate 4

# create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
create

# uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
#compress

# RPM packages drop log rotation information into this directory
include /etc/logrotate.d

# no packages own wtmp — we’ll rotate them here
/var/log/wtmp {
monthly
minsize 1M
create 0664 root utmp
rotate 1
}

cat /etc/logrotate.d/httpd

/var/log/httpd/*log {
missingok
notifempty
sharedscripts
postrotate
/sbin/service httpd reload > /dev/null 2>/dev/null || true
endscript
}

My server is running nearly 10 sites and all those creating log files under statistics in vhosts.
it wil become more than 30 gb with in week. how to control it. please reply me

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:33:27 +0000

@ Rytis

mod_status shows no change in uptime between log rotations for me … lighttpd-1.4.23 on FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE

/etc/newsyslog.conf
/var/log/lighttpd.*.log www:www 600 7 * $D0 GJ /var/run/lighttpd.pid

By: Rytis

Rytis — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:49:41 +0000

@ Rob

mod_status reports lighttpd started up after logs were rotated, and all the previous stats are cleared. Since some of my logs are roated daily, my server uptime reported by mod_status is never more than a day.

I was just wondering if it’s possible to rotate the logs and keep the server running (or is it good to restart it every day anyways?)

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:32:37 +0000

@ Geoff and Rytis:

I don’t think the HUP signal actually restarts lighttpd, from my understanding it tells the daemon to close any open file handles, open a new logfile and reload the config file

By: Rytis

Rytis — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:32:42 +0000

Good question Geoff.

I also wonder why does lighttpd has to be restarted after logs are rotated?

If the logs are rotated everyday, the server is restarted every day.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:23:29 +0000

Why does lighttpd need to be restarted after rotating the log files? Isn’t the log simply copied, then truncated? I don’t see why a restart is needed.

By: F4jr china

F4jr china — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:59:36 +0000

It works perfectly !

Thanks !

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:30:56 +0000

@ F4jr
It sure is! You do need to tell newsyslog that the logfile is a shell pattern with the G flag:

/var/log/lighttpd.*.log www:www 644 7 * $D0 GJ /var/run/lighttpd.pid

By: F4jr

F4jr — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:48:49 +0000

Is it possible to do something like that :

“/var/log/lighttpd/*/*.log”

thanks for your help !

By: aman

aman — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 12:18:02 +0000

What is this crond above refers to if u please tell me then its really helpful to me

By: nixcraft

nixcraft — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:13:58 +0000

Colin,

Thanks for sharing newsyslog configuration directive

Appreciate your post.

By: Colin

Colin — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:31:04 +0000

Sigh… it got truncated:

/var/log/lighttpd.access.log www:www 644 7 * $D0 B /var/run/lighttpd.pid

(If you have lighttpd running as a different user/group than www, modify accordingly.)

By: Colin

Colin — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:29:24 +0000

Oops, left out the owner:group parameter:

/var/log/lighttpd.access.log www

By: Colin

Colin — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:28:07 +0000

If you are running BSD, you can use BSD’s newsyslog to do the same. Just add this line to /etc/newsyslog.conf:

/var/log/lighttpd.access.log \
644 7 * $D0 \
B /var/run/lighttpd.pid

It rotates the lighttpd access log everyday at midnight, saves seven previous logs, and sends -HUP to lighttpd. See “man newsyslog.conf” for more information.