The usual system to use for log file rotation on Linux is logrotate the man page even includes an example entry for dealing with apache log file rotation.
Note that the logrotate example does a:
of the apache PID, not a restart of apache, perhaps you could try that in your savelog configuration.
The other idea to try is to do a copy truncate, that is copy the current log file to httpd.log.0 (having rolled the previous log files to httpd.log.n+1 first) and then do :
So that the inode number used by apache for the log file does not need to change?
Last edited by TonyFullerMalv; 04-02-2010 at 09:26 AM..
Reason: Extra ideas
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