[ILUG] Problem with removing apache logs

[Jerry Walsh]

No, rotatelogs doesn't HUP apache at all... apache pipes the log data
to rotatelogs which in turn just creates a new logfile when the time
comes and it sends the log data into that one.  Rotatelogs doesn't touch
the apache processes at all...

Jerry.


At 10:14 12/11/01 +0000, you wrote:
>I had a problem on a box with removing some large apache logs. I don't run
>a logrotate script on the box, though if you follow this, you'll see why I
>don't think it would have helped. I stopped apache, deleted the log files,
>and started apache again, but the space used by the deleted files had not
>been returned to the free space. I had a version of lsof on the box but it
>was old (wrong kernel version) so a reboot was the quickest option to get
>back on the air. But why didn't the space get returned to the filesystem ?
>As I mentioned, I had stopped apache, and this is why I don't think a
>logrotate script would have helped - all it does is move the log files and
>send HUP to apache. If a non-existent apache process can hang on to a file,
>I don't imagine a little HUP is going to bother it :-)