rotatelogs

Thursday, 10. 20. 2005  –  Category: todo, web

I’m basically a fan of rotatelogs(1) for Apache logging: no need to gracefully restart, easy filenames to script with, encourages log ageing. I do however find myself forever doing stuff like $ ls -tr /a/log/dir | tail error_log.1129593600 error_log.1129680000 error_log.1129766400 $ tail -f error_log.1129766400 to diagnose a problem. What would be cool was if rotatelogs […]