MrBrown blob » newsyslog http://charles.lescampeurs.org random bits. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:34:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Rotate Nginx log files under FreeBSD http://charles.lescampeurs.org/2008/07/17/rotate-nginx-log-files-under-freebsd?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rotate-nginx-log-files-under-freebsd http://charles.lescampeurs.org/2008/07/17/rotate-nginx-log-files-under-freebsd#comments Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:15:12 +0000 CharlyBr http://charles.lescampeurs.org/?p=27 To rotate your nginx log files, you can use the log file handler provided by FreeBSD: newsyslog.

Configuring /etc/newsyslog.conf

/var/log/nginx-access.log               644  7     1024 *     JC /var/run/nginx.pid
/var/log/nginx-error.log                644  7     1024 *     JC /var/run/nginx.pid

Before log rotation:

-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    104278002 Jul 16 11:35 nginx-access.log
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      1509531 Jul 16 11:17 nginx-error.log

After log rotation:

-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel        967 Jul 16 12:42 nginx-access.log
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    5310443 Jul 16 12:41 nginx-access.log.0.bz2
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel         77 Jul 16 12:41 nginx-error.log
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      37552 Jul 16 12:41 nginx-error.log.0.bz2

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