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Who knows cronolog inside and out?

I am trying to setup cronolog for my apache 1.3.31server. I have 3 vhosts and want to set them all up to rotate individually. To do a test run I have tried to setup only one of the vhosts. I followed the instructions that are provided on the developers site but apache says "noway buddy" and I should run a configtest then it tells me this:

Syntax error on line 1085 of /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf:
CustomLog takes two or three arguments, a file name, a custom log format string or format name, and an optional "env=" clause (see docs)

This is what I have in my 1st vhost and this is where the lines of error occur.

1083 ErrorLog logs/mydomainname_error_log
1084 CustomLog logs/mydomainname_access_log combined
1085 CustomLog "|/usr/local/sbin/cronolog --delay "2 hours" /www/mydomainname/logs/%Y/%m-%d-mydomainname-access.log"
1086 ErrorLog "|/usr/local/sbin/cronolog --delay "2 hours" /www/mydomainname/logs/%Y/%m-%d-mydomainname-errors.log

What's the problem? :-S

ahoffmann

> 1085 CustomLog "|/usr/local/sbin/cronolog --delay "2 hours"
did you miss the closing double-quote after cronolog?
Or should it look like :

CustomLog "|/usr/local/sbin/cronolog --delay '2 hours'"

then you need to add at least a format string (as the error says;-)

same applies to line 1086

ricbax

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Should have caught the single quotes, but since I like to work late at night i missed it.

However it still gives me the error, and I am not sure what a custom log format string or format name, and an optional "env=" clause is. Please explain with relation to my situation.

Thanks

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ahoffmann

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