rotatelogs

rotatelogs(8)                                                    rotatelogs(8)



NAME
       rotatelogs - rotate Apache logs without having to kill the server

SYNOPSIS
       rotatelogs logfile rotationtime [offset]


DESCRIPTION
       rotatelogs  is  a  simple  program for use in conjunction with Apache's
       piped logfile feature, which can be used like this:

       CustomLog "|bin/rotatelogs /var/logs/logfile 86400" common

       This creates the files /var/logs/logfile.nnnn where nnnn is the  system
       time at which the log nominally starts (this time will always be a mul-
       tiple of the rotation time, so you can synchronize  cron  scripts  with
       it).   At the end of each rotation time (here after 24 hours) a new log
       is started.

OPTIONS
       logfile
              The path plus basename of the logfile.  If logfile includes  any
              Otherwise,  the suffix .nnnnnnnnnn is automatically added and is
              the time in seconds.  Both formats compute the start  time  from
              the beginning of the current period.

       rotationtime
              The rotation time in seconds.

       offset The  number  of  minutes  offset  from UTC.  If omitted, zero is
              assumed and UTC is used.  For example, to use local time in  the
              zone UTC -5 hours, specify a value of -300 for this argument.

PORTABILITY
       The  following  logfile format string substitutions should be supported
       by all strftime(3) implementations, see the strftime(3)  man  page  for
       library-specific extensions.

       %A     full weekday name (localized)

       %a     3-character weekday name (localized)

       %B     full month name (localized)

       %b     3-character month name (localized)

       %c     date and time (localized)

       %d     2-digit day of month

       %H     2-digit hour (24 hour clock)

       %I     2-digit hour (12 hour clock)

       %j     3-digit day of year

       %M     2-digit minute

       %m     2-digit month

       %p     am/pm of 12 hour clock (localized)

       %S     2-digit second

       %U     2-digit week of year (Sunday first day of week)

       %W     2-digit week of year (Monday first day of week)

       %w     1-digit weekday (Sunday first day of week)

       %X     time (localized)

       %x     date (localized)

       %Y     4-digit year

       %y     2-digit year

       %Z     time zone name

       %%     literal `%'

SEE ALSO
       httpd(8)



                                  March 2001                     rotatelogs(8)