Apache Log Management

Install log rotate it'll rotate your logs automatically.

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Install log rotate it'll rotate your logs automatically.

Do you mean this: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/progra … elogs.html">http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/programs/rotatelogs.html

Nope this http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/logrotate8.html, your distro will have it as a package try apt-get install logrotate for debian/ubuntu

Odd, normally most distributions will automatically install/configure logrotate when you install any package that produces logs (like apache).

On the subject…if I just do nothing and let the log file grow and grow, is there a limit (ie file size) beyond which there would be some kind of performance issue?

Well, if you're using an ext3 or ext4 filesystem, I think there's a file size limit of 2^24 blocks (16GB-2TB depending on block size). Other than this, writing the log shouldn't be much of a problem, but moving/searching/analyzing a huge file can take a long time. Another benefit of logrotate is that it can automatically compress older log files for you.

A bigger problem is that you'll eventually run out of disk space. (Keep in mind that there are many other log files on your system as well, which logrotate also rotates.)

Thanks for the info – I'll look into configuring that solution.