ROTATELOGS(8) BSD System Manager's Manual ROTATELOGS(8)
rotatelogs - rotate Apache logs without having to kill the server
rotatelogs logfile rotationtime [offset]
rotatelogs is a simple program for use in conjunction with httpd(8)'s
piped logfile feature which can be used like this:
TransferLog "| rotatelogs /path/to/logs/access_log 86400"
This creates the files /path/to/logs/access_log.nnnn where nnnn is the
system time at which the log nominally starts (this time will always be a
multiple of the rotation time, so you can synchronize cron(8) scripts
with it). At the end of each rotation time (here, after 24 hours), a new
log is started.
The arguments are as follows:
logfile The path plus basename of the logfile. If logfile includes
any percent characters ('%'), it is treated as a format
string for strftime(3). Otherwise, the suffix .nnnn is au-
tomatically added and is the time at which the logfile was
created.
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 ar-
gument.
strftime(3), cron(8), httpd(8), logresolve(8)
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