Log file rotation script

[Igor Clark]

i did almost exactly the same for a virtual-hosted server with loads  
of logs in e.g. /var/www/$HOSTNAME/logs

	#!/bin/sh
	#
	# nginx_log_rotate.sh
	#
	# Rotates nginx logs into hour-stamped archive directories
	# and gzips with to-the-second timestamps

	NGINX_DIR=/path/to/nginx-install
	PID_FILE=$NGINX_DIR/logs/nginx.pid

	for s in /path/to/web/root/*
	do
		echo $s
	        if [ -L $s ] ; then	# ignore symlinks, if any
	                continue
	        fi

	        log_dir=$s/logs
	        date_dir=`date +%Y/%m/%d/%H`  # change this to the precision  
you want, and match with crontab frequency

	        if [ -r ${log_dir}/access_log ] && [ -r ${log_dir}/ 
error_log ] ; then

	                # make new timed dir
	                /bin/mkdir -p ${log_dir}/${date_dir} > /dev/null 2>&1

	                # move in current logs
	                /bin/mv ${log_dir}/access_log ${log_dir}/${date_dir}/ 
access_log
	                /bin/mv ${log_dir}/error_log ${log_dir}/${date_dir}/ 
error_log

	                # tell nginx to reopen logs
	                kill -USR1 `cat $PID_FILE`

	                # compress old
	                compress_stamp=`date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S`
	                /bin/gzip -S _$compress_stamp.gz ${log_dir}/$ 
{date_dir}/access_log &
	                /bin/gzip -S _$compress_stamp.gz ${log_dir}/$ 
{date_dir}/error_log &

	        fi
	done


On 9 Jun 2008, at 03:07, Dave Cheney wrote:

> I wrote this a while ago which does the trick
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> YEAR=`date "+%Y"`
> MONTH=`date "+%m"`
> DAY=`date "+%d"`
>
> HOSTNAME=`hostname -s`
>
> LOG_FILES="access.log error.log"
>
> DATE=$YEAR/$MONTH/$DAY
>
> LOG_ROOT=/var/log
> NGINX_LOG_ROOT=$LOG_ROOT/nginx
>
> # make path
>
> mkdir -p $NGINX_LOG_ROOT/$DATE
>
> # touch and symlink in new log files
>
> for FILE in $LOG_FILES; do
> 	LOG_FILE=$NGINX_LOG_ROOT/$DATE/$HOSTNAME.$FILE
> 	touch $LOG_FILE
> 	ln -fs $LOG_FILE $NGINX_LOG_ROOT/$FILE
> done
>
> # tell nginx to re-open its log files
>
> kill -USR1 `cat /var/run/nginx.pid`
>
>
>
>
> On 09/06/2008, at 11:50 AM, Rt Ibmer wrote:
>
>> Hi - does anyone have a log file rotation script for nginx they can  
>> share? Basically just looking for something simple I can set up in  
>> cron once a day that will tell nginx to roll the log file and set  
>> its file name to the current date, and then gzip it.  Thanks!
>>
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