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a good link<br />
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<a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/06/14/Big_Scary_Daemons.html" rel="ugc">http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/06/14/Big_Scary_Daemons.html</a>
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a good link

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/06/14/Big_Scary_Daemons.html [http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/06/14/Big_Scary_Daemons.html]

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Hi,<br />
I am trying to rotate logs every hour using newsyslog<br />
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I have following in /etc/newsyslog.conf<br />
# logfilename &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; [owner:group] &nbsp; &nbsp;mode count size when [ZJB] [/pid_file] &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; [sig_num]<br />
/www/logs/access_log &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;644 &nbsp; 30 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; * &nbsp; &nbsp; * &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;B &nbsp; &nbsp; /www/logs/httpsd.pid &nbsp; &nbsp; 30<br />
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and I have following crontab<br />
0 * * * * &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;newsyslog<br />
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but it is not rotate logs!<br />
I did restart apache every time I made changes to newsyslog.conf file, but still not working!<br />
When I use @T00 switch for time, it works and rotates every midnight, but what is the switch for every hour?<br />
Please help!<br />
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Also is there a way to change the format of logfile name? like force it to create [ access_log.14.1 ] ?<br />
[ which means access log of hour 14, day 1 ] &nbsp;
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Hi,
I am trying to rotate logs every hour using newsyslog

I have following in /etc/newsyslog.conf
# logfilename               [owner:group]    mode count size when [ZJB] [/pid_file]                   [sig_num]
/www/logs/access_log                            644   30       *     *      B     /www/logs/httpsd.pid     30

and I have following crontab
0 * * * *      newsyslog

but it is not rotate logs!
I did restart apache every time I made changes to newsyslog.conf file, but still not working!
When I use @T00 switch for time, it works and rotates every midnight, but what is the switch for every hour?
Please help!

Also is there a way to change the format of logfile name? like force it to create [ access_log.14.1 ] ?
[ which means access log of hour 14, day 1 ]  

Free BSD :  newsyslog setup for Hourly log rotate

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