[ale] Apache log files

[jj at spiderentertainment.com (jj at spiderentertainment.com)]

Yeah well I use logrotate right now, and it's chewing up my CPU. I need
something that does not chew cpu... argh...
We are talking about logs that are 4GB+


Mike Fletcher wrote:

> >>>>> "jj" == jj  <jj at spiderentertainment.com> writes:
>
>     jj> Is there a way where apache will start a new log file for each
>     jj> day ?  for example logDDMMYY.log, I can't seem to find this
>     jj> anywhere...
>
>         I don't think apache itself can do it internally, but you can
> probably achieve something similar with logrotate.
>
>         Another option would be to set the log filename pipe to a
> program and then have that program take care of rotating the logs
> (the writing of said program is of course left as an exercise for the
> reader :).  Check the documentation on the mod_log_common module and
> for the ErrorLog and TransferLog directives for more details.
>
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