使用logrotate 为nginx日志 分卷

1.locate your Nginx pid file: ( normally it's at: /opt/nginx/logs/nginx.pid in my Ubuntu)

2.you should know this key process:

# this just simply make nginx start a new log file, but NOT restart.  ( quite fast)
kill -USR1 `cat /opt/nginx/logs/nginx.pid`
  1. create a new file (/etc/logrotate.d/nginx) containing this :
# nginx SIGUSR1: Re-opens the log files.
"/opt/nginx/logs/access.log" "/opt/nginx/logs/error.log"{
  daily
  rotate 7
  dateext
  copytruncate
  missingok
  notifempty
  delaycompress
  sharedscripts
  postrotate
    test ! -f /opt/nginx/logs/nginx.pid || kill -USR1 `cat /opt/nginx/logs/nginx.pid`
  endscript
}

  1. 记住： logrotate 运行时，是有一个自己的状态记录文件的。( /var/lib/logrotate.status ) 它会在这个文件中记录好每个文件的最早时间。然后每次运行时把目标文件跟自己的表做对比。如果发现目标文件的日期超过了这个表的日期，比如一个星期，那么 logrotate 才会对它分卷。 ( keep in mind that logrotate has its own status file which is used to remember when the target file is created and determine if the target file should be rotated. )

  2. 典型命令：

$logrotate -v /etc/logrotate.d/nginx   (如果你使用了 -vd 那么就仅仅是一个dry-run 预演，不会对 /var/lib/logrotate.status 生效 ) ( also remember that don't use the debug mode since it's just lead to a dry-run result and won't take effect on /var/lib/logrotate.status file )
  1. 把logrotate增加到你的 crontab中去。 (make it affect via crontab -e)

例如：

# in crontab editor:
0 0 * * * logrotate -v /etc/logrotate.conf

p.s. 所以，想要你的改动立即生效的话，

1.先运行logrotate :

$ logrotate -v /etc/logrotate.d/nginx

2.编辑 vim /var/lib/logrotate.status 把里面对应的内容，改成昨天。

例如：

"/usr/local/nginx/logs/access.log" 2013-12-22

要改成：

"/usr/local/nginx/logs/access.log" 2013-12-21
  1. 再运行：
$ logrotate -v /etc/logrotate.d/nginx