Nginx doesn't include periodic log rotation functionality, the only thing
included is reopening the log files on USR1 signal, so one may rename the
current log file and then kill -USR1 `cat /var/run/nginx.pid` for nginx to
create a new log (see http://wiki.nginx.org/LogRotation ). External tools
may be used to do the actual period rotation, like in Linuxish world it's
normally done by logrotate (
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man8/logrotate.8.html ) - in
recent Ubuntu versions it's already set up to rotate default nginx log
files.


2012/12/14 S Ahmed <sahmed1020@gmail.com>

> only on a full moon, excluding leap years. thank you and when can I
> expect this feature? :)
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Francis Daly <francis@daoine.org> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 03:00:53PM -0500, S Ahmed wrote:
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> > By default does nginx just keep appending to the same log file? (for
>> both
>> > access and error log files)
>>
>> Yes. (Although the access log file name can include per-request
>> variables.)
>>
>> > Is there a reason why there is no built in way of having it create a new
>> > file per day/hour or something? I guess the idea is to keep the feature
>> > set very lean?
>>
>> Would you like it per day or per hour? Or every 4 MB, or every 1 million
>> lines? (Or every second Tuesday unless the moon is full?) There are too
>> many possibly-useful rules for anything built-in to satisfy everybody.
>>
>> So nginx allows you to choose whatever combination of circumstances you
>> want, outside of nginx, and then provides a well-defined way for you to
>> induce a log file rotation.
>>
>> http://nginx.org/en/docs/control.html#logs
>>
>> That's my understanding, anyway.
>>
>> f
>> --
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