Log file rotation script

[Aníbal Rojas]

AmI missing something or using logrotate as Corey is just fine?

(I use logrotate for everything)

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Aíbal

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Dave Cheney <dave at cheney.net> 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`
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> LOG_FILES="access.log error.log"
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> DATE=$YEAR/$MONTH/$DAY
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> LOG_ROOT=/var/log
> NGINX_LOG_ROOT=$LOG_ROOT/nginx
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> # make path
>
> mkdir -p $NGINX_LOG_ROOT/$DATE
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> # 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`
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> 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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Aníbal