Re: Apache logs and prerotate

In a message dated 8/27/01 12:21:13 PM GMT Daylight Time, rbowen(at)rcbowen.com 
writes:

> logrotate is a RedHat thing, right?
Yup.

> I do my log rotation with a Perl
>  module called Logfile::Rotate
>  
>  A Log::Rotate program looks something like:
>  [snip]
>  $logfile->rotate();
>  =============================

And you run this via crontab?
>  
>  All you would have to do is do something to the logfile before you rotate
>  it. You can get this off of CPAN. I always had troubles making
>  logrotate (the RedHat version anyway) do what I actually wanted it to.

OK, thanks.  My hosting provider knows how to set it up to rotate the logs, 
but not how to get a script to be executed before the log is rotated :-(

Will see if they will install the Perl module..

thanks,
Peter.

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