apache logging problems

[Joshua Andrews]

Eric Rostetter wrote:
> Quoting Joshua Andrews <josh at wavefood.com>:
>
>> The httpd logrotate script was much as you wrote it out but there are
>> so many entries because of the virtualhost logging that I have
>> consolidated them all into one expression;
>>
>> /var/log/httpd/access_log /var/log/httpd/any_log etc... {
>> missingok
>> postrotate
>> /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/httpd.pid 2>/dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
>> endscript
>> }
>
> You left out the "sharedscripts" option.
>
>> I am thinking that restarting httpd so many times as I had logs may be
>> the problem.
>
> Unless you use the "sharedscripts" option as I showed, it will still
> restart it for each log file listed.  The "sharedscripts" option tells
> it to only run the script once after rotating all the logs....
Cool man, that is exactly what I did not understand how to do!  Next 
Sunday will be the true test of course.
Thanks a lot.

-Joshua