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authorEric Covener <covener@apache.org>2014-08-02 22:19:17 +0200
committerEric Covener <covener@apache.org>2014-08-02 22:19:17 +0200
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use /var/log instead of /var/logs in examples
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@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ be sure the log file format has enough granularity to produce
a different file name each time the logs are rotated. Otherwise
rotation will overwrite the same file instead of starting a new
one. For example, if <var>logfile</var> was
-<code>/var/logs/errorlog.%Y-%m-%d</code> with log rotation at 5
+<code>/var/log/errorlog.%Y-%m-%d</code> with log rotation at 5
megabytes, but 5 megabytes was reached twice in the same day, the
same log file name would be produced and log rotation would keep
writing to the same file.</p>
@@ -172,32 +172,32 @@ an offset.</dd>
<section id="examples"><title>Examples</title>
<example>
- CustomLog "|bin/rotatelogs /var/logs/logfile 86400" common
+ CustomLog "|bin/rotatelogs /var/log/logfile 86400" common
</example>
- <p>This creates the files /var/logs/logfile.nnnn where nnnn is
+ <p>This creates the files /var/log/logfile.nnnn where nnnn is
the system time at which the log nominally starts (this time
will always be a multiple of the rotation time, so you can
synchronize cron scripts with it). At the end of each rotation
time (here after 24 hours) a new log is started.</p>
<example>
- CustomLog "|bin/rotatelogs -l /var/logs/logfile.%Y.%m.%d 86400" common
+ CustomLog "|bin/rotatelogs -l /var/log/logfile.%Y.%m.%d 86400" common
</example>
- <p>This creates the files /var/logs/logfile.yyyy.mm.dd where
+ <p>This creates the files /var/log/logfile.yyyy.mm.dd where
yyyy is the year, mm is the month, and dd is the day of the month.
Logging will switch to a new file every day at midnight, local time.</p>
<example>
- CustomLog "|bin/rotatelogs /var/logs/logfile 5M" common
+ CustomLog "|bin/rotatelogs /var/log/logfile 5M" common
</example>
<p>This configuration will rotate the logfile whenever it reaches
a size of 5 megabytes.</p>
<example>
- ErrorLog "|bin/rotatelogs /var/logs/errorlog.%Y-%m-%d-%H_%M_%S 5M"
+ ErrorLog "|bin/rotatelogs /var/log/errorlog.%Y-%m-%d-%H_%M_%S 5M"
</example>
<p>This configuration will rotate the error logfile whenever it
reaches a size of 5 megabytes, and the suffix to the logfile name
@@ -205,10 +205,10 @@ an offset.</dd>
<code>errorlog.YYYY-mm-dd-HH_MM_SS</code>.</p>
<example>
- CustomLog "|bin/rotatelogs -t /var/logs/logfile 86400" common
+ CustomLog "|bin/rotatelogs -t /var/log/logfile 86400" common
</example>
- <p>This creates the file /var/logs/logfile, truncating the file at
+ <p>This creates the file /var/log/logfile, truncating the file at
startup and then truncating the file once per day. It is expected
in this scenario that a separate process (such as tail) would
process the file in real time.</p>