Help With Logrotate

[tommyv]

Hi there, I was hoping someone could help me with logrotate not behaving as I would expect it to. Probably a simple one:

So I have a big apache log that I want to rotate when it reaches 20Meg:

-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 134M May 9 08:58 access_log
-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 3.1M May 9 05:49 error_log

My config is like so:

/var/www/vhosts/mydomain/statistics/logs/*log {
size 20M
compress
delaycompress
create 640 apache apache
rotate 6
sharedscripts
postrotate
if [ -f /var/run/httpd.pid ]; then
/etc/init.d/httpd restart > /dev/null
fi
endscript
}

I would expect to see 6 logfiles of 20Meg each, but it just dumps everything to access_log.1. Whats wrong here?

-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 0 May 9 09:08 access_log
-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 134M May 9 09:07 access_log.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 3.1M May 9 05:49 error_log

Many thanks

Tom

[HROAdmin26]

You have 1 log. The rule can't do anything about your logs *in the past.* The final size will depend on how much it compresses - which you have set to delaycompress, so that won't happen until the first log is rotated to the 2ND log.

It's all in the manual.