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REVISED WEB SERVER LOG ROTATION SCHEDULE
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This will be of interest primarily to customers who have Web sites on
www.bcpl.net, and who extract statistics for their sites from the Web
server's logs.  Everyone else may ignore this.

The logs in question are "access_log", "error_log", and "referer_log",
located in the /carl/httpd/logs directory on mail.bcpl.net (a.k.a.
www.bcpl.net). For several years the Web server logs have been "rotated"
on a weekly basis.  access_log, error_log, and referer_log are the logs
for the current week, and access_log.0, error_log.0, and referer_log.0 are
the logs for the previous week.  error_log.0 and referer_log.0 are deleted
automatically at 12:01 AM Tuesday, and access_log.0 is kept until 12:01 AM
Sunday or until disk space get tight, which ever happens first.

It is no longer possible to maintain that schedule.  The Web server logs
now grow at such a rapid rate and to such a large size that it is usually
necessary to delete error_log.0 and referer_log.0 late Sunday or early
Monday, and access_log.0 usually must be deleted late Tuesday.  If this is
not done the hard disk on which the logs are stored fills up, making it
impossible for the Web server to write any more log entries.

Effective Sunday, October 3, the logs will be rotated every day at 12:01
AM.  We will start out keeping logs for the current day plus the two
previous days, but this is subject to change depending on the disk space
situation.  The daily logs will be named as follows:
o access_log, error_log, and referer_log will always be the logs for
  the current day.
o access_log.0, error_log.0, and referer_log.0 will always be the logs
  for the previous day.
o access_log.1, error_log.1, and referer_log.1 will always be the logs
  from two days ago.

If you are currently extracting statistics from the Web server logs, as of
Sunday October 3 you will need to do it on a daily schedule rather than
weekly.  If you are using a "cron" job to gather your statistics
automatically, you will need to edit your "crontab" to accommodate the new
schedule.

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