====== newsyslog ======

  * [[OS X]]

  * [[https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/newsyslog.8.html|newsyslog man page]]
  * [[https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man5/newsyslog.conf.5.html|newsyslog.conf man page]]

Log rotation for OS X.

New system log rotation rules are put in ''/etc/newsyslog.d/''

=== Configuration ===

The configuration for the ''newsyslog.conf'' files are as follows: keep 5 logs, don't trim log file based on size, rotate daily, and to compress the log files using bzip2, and not signal any processes post-rotation.

** Rotate PHP logs **

Add this to ''/etc/newsyslog.d/php.conf'', or download it [[http://beandog.digitaltrike.com/osx/newsyslog/php.conf|here]]

The permissions here are set so that the developer and the httpd daemon can write to them.

<code>
# logfilename                           [owner:group]   mode    count   size    when    flags [/pid_file] [sig_num]
/usr/local/steve/logs/php53.log        daemon:staff    664     5       *       $D0     JN
/usr/local/steve/logs/php54.log        daemon:staff    664     5       *       $D0     JN
/usr/local/steve/logs/php55.log        daemon:staff    664     5       *       $D0     JN
/usr/local/steve/logs/php56.log        daemon:staff    664     5       *       $D0     JN
</code>

** Rotate Apache logs **

Add this to ''/etc/newsyslog.d/apache.conf'', or download it [[http://beandog.org/osx/newsyslog/apache.conf|here]]

<code>
# logfilename                                   [owner:group]   mode    count   size    when    flags [/pid_file] [sig_num]
/usr/local/steve/apache2/logs/access_log       root:wheel      644      5       *       $D0     JN
/usr/local/steve/apache2/logs/error_log        root:wheel      644      5       *       $D0     JN
/usr/local/steve/apache2/logs/ssl_request_log  root:wheel      644      5       *       $D0     JN
/usr/local/steve/apache2/logs/suexec_log       root:wheel      644      5       *       $D0     JN
</code>