Logrotate trivial

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Trivial log rotation script

This is a trivial log rotator for Apache. Run it from cron monthly to keep 3 months of logs. This isn't so useful these days as most systems now have Red Hat's "logrotate" installed by default.

#!/bin/sh

cd /var/www/logs

mv -f access_log_1.gz access_log_2.gz
mv -f access_log access_log_1
gzip access_log_1
touch access_log
chmod 644 access_log

mv -f error_log_1.gz error_log_2.gz
mv -f error_log error_log_1
gzip error_log_1
touch error_log
chmod 644 error_log

mv -f ssl_request_log_1.gz ssl_request_log_2.gz
mv -f ssl_request_log ssl_request_log_1
gzip ssl_request_log_1
touch ssl_request_log
chmod 644 ssl_request_log

mv -f ssl_engine_log_1.gz ssl_engine_log_2.gz
mv -f ssl_engine_log ssl_engine_log_1
gzip ssl_engine_log_1
touch ssl_engine_log
chmod 644 ssl_engine_log

/var/www/apache2/bin/apachectl graceful 2>&1 >/dev/null