Re: Log rotation question

[Allen Bettilyon]

Kirk Bauer wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Chris Edillon wrote:
>
>  
>
> >  you could do the obvious "Sunday.Hr23.Min30" or whenever the
> > last cfagent run is scheduled for sunday night.  or, if you know
> > approximately how large your log files get in a day, you could
> > use the size option.  or some combination of all:
> >
> >  disable:
> >      Sunday.Hr23::
> >          /var/log/httpd/access_log  rotate=52  size=<1000
> >
> > that will rotate the log on sunday night at 2300 hours, if
> > the log is greater than 1MB (assuming that it will get rotated
> > the first time cfagent runs that hour, and it won't grow to
> > 1MB within that hour).  depending on how fast your log fills
> > up you should change the size accordingly.
> >    
>
> That's a good idea... I was hoping there was a "cleaner" way to do it...
> but I'll use this if there is not a better option ;)
>
>  
You could do...

    disable:
           Sunday.IfElapsed86400::
                   /var/log/httpd/access_log rotate=52 size=<1000

  
That would run on Sunday and only if it hasn't ran for 86400 seconds (1 day)

- Allen