[Info-vax] Apache log rotation

[Neil Rieck]

On Thursday, August 9, 2012 11:17:38 PM UTC-4, Steven Schweda wrote:
> I'm running "CPQ AXPVMS CSWS V2.1-1", and although I do
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> seem to have an APACHE$COMMON:[BIN]ROTATELOGS.EXE, I've never
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> tried to use it, so I know nothing, but ...
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> > CustomLog "|bin/rotatelogs -l
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> >  apache$common:[logs]logfile.%Y-%m-%d 86400" common
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> I'd be a little amazed if any of this UNIXy code could deal
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> with a VMS-style file spec like that.  My (simple) directive
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> looks like:
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>       CustomLog logs/access_log combined
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> so I'd expect anything to have a UNIX-style spec, and a
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> relative one works for a simple log.
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> > ...so I'm assuming [...]
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>    You learned nothing from "Desk Set"?

Yeah, I was wondering about that syntax as well (especially the pipe) and was hoping that someone at HP did something behind the scenes to do on VMS what was documented at httpd.apache.org

NSR