Option for cPanel Log Rotation based on Dates, not File Sizes

[DomineauX]

Frankly this does need further attention as the default or optional built in methods for handling Apache log rotations are extremely limited still.

I would love to see optional log rotation settings (via WHM) so as to allow us to specify daily rotate if [non-empty/>_mb] and keep _ [days/weeks/months]

[cPanelDavidG]

Frankly this does need further attention as the default or optional built in methods for handling Apache log rotations are extremely limited still.

I would love to see optional log rotation settings (via WHM) so as to allow us to specify daily rotate if [non-empty/>_mb] and keep _ [days/weeks/months]

Commonly, log rotation is done to ease the disk consumption since archived logs can be more easily located and then moved off to another machine if they need to be kept for an extended period of time.

I am wondering about your particular scenario, why it would be more beneficial to rotate on the basis of the time difference of the first log entry to the last log entry rather than the size of the file? Knowing what this functionality may be used for can help us anticipate specific conditions that may need to be accounted for when implementing such functionality.

[DomineauX]

Commonly, log rotation is done to ease the disk consumption since archived logs can be more easily located and then moved off to another machine if they need to be kept for an extended period of time.

I am wondering about your particular scenario, why it would be more beneficial to rotate on the basis of the time difference of the first log entry to the last log entry rather than the size of the file? Knowing what this functionality may be used for can help us anticipate specific conditions that may need to be accounted for when implementing such functionality.

Personally I am just fond of the daily log rotate scenario as it makes it easier to know which log to check if someone tells me that on May 30th something happened so I check access_log.3.gz (as would be the case at this moment).

While I can certainly see the point that rotating by size is useful, I think it would be great to have both configurable options without having to do it via logrotate config scripts as we currently do.

[cPanelDavidG]

I have split this discussion off into its own feature request so it doesn't get lost in the previous discussion regarding more customizations on log file sizes, which is implemented in 11.25.1.

[DomineauX]

Understood and thanks for doing so David

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[cPanelDavidG]

I spoke with the OP and we're going to pursue this by means of moving towards syslogd as discussed in http://forums.cpanel.net/f145/syslog...-a-241591.html so I'm going to close this thread and archive it.