Matthew Miller wrote: > That said, *both* of them are too brutal, in that they'll kill any open > connections. Signal USR1 (or service httpd graceful) is much nicer, since it > lets any open connections complete. The downside is that these old > connections might get written to the _rotated_ log instead of the new one, > but to me that's a small price to pay. I've always used copytruncate for httpd logs and logrotate, never bothered to send signals to apache at all... sample config - "/path/to/logs/*www*log" { daily rotate 1 nocompress notifempty copytruncate missingok sharedscripts olddir /path/to/archivedir postrotate DATE=`date --date=Yesterday +%y%m%d` cd /path/to/archivedir for FOO in `ls *.1` do mv $FOO `echo $FOO | cut -f1 -d.`.$DATE.log done gzip -9 *.$DATE.log sleep 60 sync logger "[LOGROTATE] Rotated these logs: `echo *.${DATE}.log.gz`" endscript } nate