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29.21. Configure the new /etc/logrotate.d/apache file

Now Apache logs files residing in the /chroot/var/log/httpd directory instead of /var/log/httpd and for this reason we need to modify the /etc/logrotate.d/httpd file to point to the new chrooted directory. Also, we've compiled Apache with mod_ssl, so we'll add one more line to permit the logrotate program to rotate the ssl_request_log and ssl_engine_log files. Configure your /etc/logrotate.d/apache file to rotate your log files each week automatically.

Create the apache file, touch /etc/logrotate.d/apache and add:


        /chroot/httpd/var/log/httpd/access_log {
        missingok
        postrotate
        /usr/bin/killall -HUP /chroot/httpd/usr/sbin/httpd
        endscript
        }

        /chroot/httpd/var/log/httpd/error_log {
        missingok
        postrotate
        /usr/bin/killall -HUP /chroot/httpd/usr/sbin/httpd
        endscript
        }

        /chroot/httpd/var/log/httpd/ssl_request_log {
        missingok
        postrotate
        /usr/bin/killall -HUP /chroot/httpd/usr/sbin/httpd
        endscript
        }

        /chroot/httpd/var/log/httpd/ssl_engine_log {
        missingok
        postrotate
        /usr/bin/killall -HUP /chroot/httpd/usr/sbin/httpd
        endscript
        }

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