What is the best way to rotate NGINX log files ?

[Mansoor Peerbhoy]

Thank you, Igor !

----- Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru> wrote:
| On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:41:30AM -0800, Mansoor Peerbhoy wrote:
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| > I have a question. What's the best way to rotate the NGINX log file ? We run NGINX as a Mail Proxy, and the log file grows quite large because we don't restart it very frequently.
| > 
| > Are there any alternatives to simply killing the NGINX process, zipping up the error log, and then restarting NGINX ?
| 
| Of course!
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| mv error.log error.log.0
| kill -USR1 `cat master.nginx.pid`
| wait 1 second and do anything with log
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| Igor Sysoev
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