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I've got an Apache server that has one access log file that is topping 600MB. This makes it really hard to search the file or parse it.
What software or modules for Apache are available that will make a daily copy of my access file to make it more manageable?
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Logrotate is a system utility that manages the automatic rotation and compression of log files.
logrotate is designed to ease administration of systems that generate large numbers of log files. It allows automatic rotation, compression, removal, and mailing of log files. Each log file may be handled daily, weekly, monthly, or when it grows too large. Normally, logrotate is run as a daily cron job.
To watch log files that get rotated on a daily base you can use the -F flag to tail command. The tail -F will keep track if new log file being created and will start following the new file instead of the old file.
If you want to rotate /var/log/syslog it needs to be listed in a logrotate config file somewhere, and you just run logrotate . If it rotated recently, then logrotate -f to force it to do it again. So, you need that in a file, normally either /etc/logrotate. conf or as a file snippet in /etc/logrotate.
Have you looked at logrotate - this is probably the simplest, most widely available and well understood method of achieving this. It is highly configurable and will probably do 90% of what you need.
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