[thelist] monthly logs linux/apache

[Daniel J. Cody]

Heya John :)

Your best bet would be to use the 'logrotate' command, but if thats not
possible..
Heres a little bash script, which is *not* well written, that I use to
do something similar, a bit of changing should work for you:

#!/bin/bash
date=`date +%b-%Y`

if [ -t 0 ] #input is term
then
	/path/to/apache/bin/apachectl stop
	mv /home/user/log/access_log /home/user/log/access_log_$date
	/path/to/apache/bin/apachectl start
else
	echo "problemo!"
fi

again, just an example, and would need to be written better, but hth!

.djc.

John Corry wrote:
> I have sites hosted at he.net on (I believe) linux servers running apache.
> The log (/home/username/logs/access_log) is overwritten every month...thats
> a bummer. Is there some way I can make the server create a new log file with
> month and year appended to its name every month?
>
> :)
> John
>