Commit 0592d4e7 authored by William A. Rowe Jr's avatar William A. Rowe Jr
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  Ok, this formats a whole lot cleaner, and (I believe) makes a bit more
  sense.  Also provides a rundown of C89 common date format strings, for
  those users who don't have man strftime [It still points out that add'l
  format options may b available, see strftime.]

  Also, I believe _most_ installations require the TransferLog "|bin/
  path to rotatelogs, no?  Other question - how to reformat to html?
  Which utility does so?


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.SH DESCRIPTION

.B rotatelogs

is a simple program for use in conjunction with Apache's piped logfile

feature which can be used like this:

feature, which can be used like this:



.fi

   TransferLog "| rotatelogs /path/to/logs/access_log 86400"

TransferLog "|bin/rotatelogs /path/to/logs/logfile 86400"

.mf



This creates the files /path/to/logs/access_log.nnnn where nnnn is the system

This creates the files /path/to/logs/logfile.nnnn where nnnn is the system

time at which the log nominally starts (this time will always be a multiple of

the rotation time, so you can synchronize cron scripts with it).  At the end

of each rotation time (here after 24 hours) a new log is started.
@@ -75,14 +75,63 @@ of each rotation time (here after 24 hours) a new log is started. 
.IP \fB\fIlogfile\fP

The path plus basename of the logfile.  If \fBlogfile\fP includes any

'%' characters, it is treated as a format string for \fIstrftime(3)\fP.

Otherwise, the suffix .nnnn is automatically added and is the time at which

the logfile was created.

Otherwise, the suffix .nnnnnnnnnn is automatically added and is the time

in seconds.  Both formats compute the start time from the beginning of the

current period.

.IP \fB\fIrotationtime\fP

The rotation time in seconds.

.IP \fB\fIoffset\fP

The number of minutes offset from UTC.  If omitted, zero is assumed and

UTC is used.  For example, to use local time in the zone UTC -5 hours,

specify a value of \fI-300\fP for this argument.

.SH PORTABILITY

The following logfile format string substitutions should be supported by

all \fIstrftime(3)\fP implementations, see the \fIstrftime(3)\fP man page

for library-specific extensions.

.IP %A

full weekday name (localized)

.IP %a

3-character weekday name (localized)

.IP %B

full month name (localized)

.IP %b

3-character month name (localized)

.IP %c

date and time (localized)

.IP %d

2-digit day of month

.IP %H

2-digit hour (24 hour clock)

.IP %I

2-digit hour (12 hour clock)

.IP %j

3-digit day of year

.IP %M

2-digit minute

.IP %m

2-digit month

.IP %p

am/pm of 12 hour clock (localized)

.IP %S

2-digit second

.IP %U

2-digit week of year (Sunday first day of week)

.IP %W

2-digit week of year (Monday first day of week)

.IP %w

1-digit weekday (Sunday first day of week)

.IP %X

time (localized)

.IP %x

date (localized)

.IP %Y

4-digit year

.IP %y

2-digit year

.IP %Z

time zone name

.IP %%

literal `%'

.PD

.SH SEE ALSO

.BR httpd(8)