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|  Topic: Example of rotatelogs (or cronolog) on Windows |  |  
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| flatcircle 
 
 
 Joined: 27 Jun 2006
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|  Posted: Mon 18 Sep '06 16:28    Post subject: Example of rotatelogs (or cronolog) on Windows |   |  
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| Hello, 
 Does somebody use rotatelogs.exe or cronolog.exe on Apche/Windows?
 I have tried every switch and parameter but can't get any of these 2 log rotators to work.
 
 CustomLog "|bin/rotatelogs /var/logs/logfile 5M" common
 CustomLog "|C:/path/to/bin/rotatelogs /var/logs/logfile 5M" common
 CustomLog "|C:/path/to/bin/rotatelogs C:/logs/logfile 5M" common
 
 Tried almost everything...nothing works
   
 Does someone have a (working) example?
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| Steffen Moderator
 
 
 Joined: 15 Oct 2005
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 Location: Hilversum, NL, EU
 
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|  Posted: Mon 18 Sep '06 16:46    Post subject: |   |  
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| Yep, try to specifify the time between log file rotations in seconds. 
 Example every hour:
 
 CustomLog "|c:/apache2/bin/rotatelogs.exe c:/apache2/logs/test.log 3600" common
 
 Btw, why not use http://www.hexten.net/mod_log_rotate/ ?
 
 Steffen
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| flatcircle 
 
 
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|  Posted: Tue 19 Sep '06 14:22    Post subject: Almost there |   |  
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| Hello, 
 Seems like Cronolog is working now.
 I use following line in httpd.conf:
 
 CustomLog "|bin/cronolog.exe logs/%Y/%m/%d/access.log" common
 
 Everything works.
 
 However, I want to store my log files on my D-drive, so I use:
 
 CustomLog "|bin/cronolog.exe d:/logs/%Y/%m/%d/access.log" common
 
 Restarted Apache without problems but nothing is written on my D-drive.
 In my error.log I see:
 
 'piped log program 'bin/cronolog.exe d:/logs/%Y/%m/%d/access.log' failed unexpectedly'
 
 Permissions on this folder are ok. Something wrong with the syntax (or quotes) in my Customlog line?
 
 Regards.
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