Strange log file behavior

Grant emailgrant at gmail.com
Mon Jul 15 10:43:26 UTC 2013


>> >> I noticed that most of my rotated nginx log files are empty (0 bytes).
>> >>
>> >> My only access_log directive is in nginx.conf:
>> >>
>> >> access_log /var/log/nginx/localhost.access_log combined;
>> >>
>> >> Also nginx is currently logging to
>> >> /var/log/nginx/localhost.access_log.1 instead of localhost.access_log.
>> >>
>> >> Does anyone know why these things are happening?
>> >
>> > This usually happens if someone don't ask nginx to reopen log
>> > files after a rotation.  See here for details:
>> >
>> > http://nginx.org/en/docs/control.html#logs
>>
>> I use logrotate:
>>
>> /var/log/nginx/*_log {
>>         missingok
>>         sharedscripts
>>         postrotate
>>                 test -r /run/nginx.pid && kill -USR1 `cat /run/nginx.pid`
>>         endscript
>> }
>>
>> Does it look OK?
>
> Make sure paths used in postrotate are correct.

The paths are correct.  I made some tweaks and I'll report back
tomorrow on how it goes.  Any other ideas?

- Grant



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