nginx logfile rotation

[Ray]

Wow I never knew that could be done with nginx! Thanks a lot 立冰 and Jim for
your help, learnt a lot.

I never came upon http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxCommandLine before by browsing
through the wiki, where exactly is it linked from?

Ray.

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Jim Ohlstein <jim at ohlste.in> wrote:

> Ray wrote:
>
>> Is there any way other than killing/restarting the nginx processes?  Am
>> asking this because it seemed to me that nginx shouldn't need to be
>> restarted for it to use the new log file, if I didn't read the wiki wrongly.
>>
> The "kill" command doesn't kill the process. It merely sends a signal to
> it, in this case "USR1" which re-opens the log file.
>
> See
> http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxCommandLine#Controlling_Nginx_Via_the_Signals .
>
>>
>> Ray.
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Jim Ohlstein <jim at ohlste.in <mailto:
>> jim at ohlste.in>> wrote:
>>
>>    Ray wrote:
>>
>>        Am trying to configure for logfile rotation using logrotate
>>        with nginx (0.7.61).  As the logrotate script runs, the old
>>        logfile is renamed and a new one is created, but nginx still
>>        writes to the old (renamed) logfile even with
>>        open_log_file_cache set to off according to
>>        http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpLogModule#open_log_file_cache
>>
>>        Is there anything that I'm missing out?
>>
>>        Ray.
>>
>>    kill -USR1 `cat /path/to/nginx.pid`
>>
>>
>>  Jim
>
>
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