Rotating access.log and error.log

[Jim Ohlstein]

Danny Trinh wrote:
> Hello group,
> 
> I like nginx. I have a dumb question: Is there a way that I can setup to 
> rotate the nginx logfiles? My access.log is growing over 700MB.

Use logrotate(8) or use a shell script. Remember that you need to run

$ kill -USR1 /path/to/nginx

in order to re-open the log file.


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> Thanks,
> 
>  
> 
> _Danny Trinh_
> 
> Linux Admin
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Jim Ohlstein