What is the best way to rotate NGINX log files ?

Rapsey rapsey at gmail.com
Wed Dec 5 21:49:45 MSK 2007


There is no need to kill nginx. Use logrotate or something.


On Dec 5, 2007 7:41 PM, Mansoor Peerbhoy <mansoor at zimbra.com> wrote:

> Hello Igor,
>
> 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 ?
>
> Regards,
> Mansoor
>
>
>
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