Hello!

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 02:49:47AM -0700, Grant wrote:

> >> I noticed that most of my rotated nginx log files are empty (0 bytes).
> >>
> >> My only access_log directive is in nginx.conf:
> >>
> >> access_log /var/log/nginx/localhost.access_log combined;
> >>
> >> Also nginx is currently logging to
> >> /var/log/nginx/localhost.access_log.1 instead of localhost.access_log.
> >>
> >> Does anyone know why these things are happening?
> >
> > This usually happens if someone don't ask nginx to reopen log
> > files after a rotation. See here for details:
> >
> > http://nginx.org/en/docs/control.html#logs
>
> I use logrotate:
>
> /var/log/nginx/*_log {
> missingok
> sharedscripts
> postrotate
> test -r /run/nginx.pid && kill -USR1 `cat /run/nginx.pid`
> endscript
> }
>
> Does it look OK?

Make sure paths used in postrotate are correct.

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Maxim Dounin
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