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1N/A<strong>NAME</strong>
1N/A rotatelogs - rotate Apache logs without having to kill the
1N/A server
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1N/A<strong>SYNOPSIS</strong>
1N/A <strong>rotatelogs </strong><em>logfile rotationtime </em>[<em>offset</em>]
1N/A
1N/A<strong>DESCRIPTION</strong>
1N/A <strong>rotatelogs </strong>is a simple program for use in conjunction with
1N/A Apache's piped logfile feature, which can be used like this:
1N/A
1N/A CustomLog "|bin/rotatelogs /var/logs/logfile 86400" common
1N/A
1N/A This creates the files /path/to/logs/logfile.nnnn where nnnn
1N/A is the system time at which the log nominally starts (this
1N/A time will always be a multiple of the rotation time, so you
1N/A can synchronize cron scripts with it). At the end of each
1N/A rotation time (here after 24 hours) a new log is started.
1N/A
1N/A<strong>OPTIONS</strong>
1N/A <em>logfile</em>
1N/A The path plus basename of the logfile. If <strong>logfile</strong>
1N/A includes any Otherwise, the suffix .nnnnnnnnnn is
1N/A automatically added and is the time in seconds. Both
1N/A formats compute the start time from the beginning of
1N/A the current period.
<em>rotationtime</em>
The rotation time in seconds.
<em>offset</em>
The number of minutes offset from UTC. If omitted,
zero is assumed and UTC is used. For example, to use
local time in the zone UTC -5 hours, specify a value of
-<em>300 </em>for this argument.
<strong>PORTABILITY</strong>
The following logfile format string substitutions should be
supported by all <em>strftime</em>(<em>3</em>) implementations, see the
<em>strftime</em>(<em>3</em>) man page for library-specific extensions.
%A full weekday name (localized)
%a 3-character weekday name (localized)
%B full month name (localized)
%b 3-character month name (localized)
%c date and time (localized)
%d 2-digit day of month
%H 2-digit hour (24 hour clock)
%I 2-digit hour (12 hour clock)
%j 3-digit day of year
%M 2-digit minute
%m 2-digit month
%p am/pm of 12 hour clock (localized)
%S 2-digit second
%U 2-digit week of year (Sunday first day of week)
%W 2-digit week of year (Monday first day of week)
%w 1-digit weekday (Sunday first day of week)
%X time (localized)
%x date (localized)
%Y 4-digit year
%y 2-digit year
%Z time zone name
%% literal `%'
<strong>SEE ALSO</strong>
<strong>httpd(8)</strong>
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