rotatelogs

Thursday, 10. 20. 2005  –  Category: todo, web

I’m basically a fan of rotatelogs(1) for Apache logging: no need to gracefully restart, easy filenames to script with, encourages log ageing.
I do however find myself forever doing stuff like
$ ls -tr /a/log/dir | tail
error_log.1129593600
error_log.1129680000
error_log.1129766400
$ tail -f error_log.1129766400 to diagnose a problem.
What would be cool was if rotatelogs linked, say, error_log.current to the, er, current [...]