Re: [syswatch-users] Adding additional Logs

[Smirks <sm...@sm...>]

First of all, I don't quite understand what is going on and why you have
to restart apache, but here's what I think....

I'm guessing apaches logs are being rotated on a nightly basis.  Well,
apache is quite picky and when it's logs are rotated it cant write to a
new file without being restarted first.  That seems to be what is going on
here, so the fix you have put it place should be ok. :)

Chris

On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, hawkeye wrote:

> In my last post I mentioned what I did to add more logs to be proccessed
> and displayed.  I did this this with my Apache access_log and the
> error_log files.  This evening I noticed that when cron ran last night it
> quit reading those 2 files.  I then decided to add a restart to cron so
> the files can be read.
>
> I created a file called apache_restart in /usr/local/sbin and added the
> following:
> /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl restart
>
> Then set permissions to:
> chmod 750 /usr/local/sbin/apache_restart
>
> I the created a file called apache_restart in /etc/cron.daily and added
> the following:
> #!/bin/sh
> PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
> /usr/local/sbin/apache_restart | mail -s "Apache Restart `/bin/hostname`
> at `/bin/date '
> +%H:%M/%m-%d-%Y'`" root
>
> Then set permissions to
> chmod 750 /usr/local/sbin/apache_restart
>
> The above will run with cron daily and execute the script in
> /usr/local/sbin.  It will the email the results to root.  The following is
> what my email looked like:
>
> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 21:15:31 -0500
> From: root <ro...@ha...>
> To: ro...@ha...
> Subject: Apache Restart hawkeye.dynhost.com at 21:15/11-27-2000
>
> /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl restart: httpd restarted
>
>
> ###  If anyone has a better way of doing this please post back to the
> list.  I am failry new at this so what you see here from me is just
> tinkering for me to get things to run the way I want them to run.
>
>
>
>
> David Price
>
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