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nixnotwin
Asked: 2011-08-10 07:09:20 +0800 CST

Varnish logrotate issue

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I have this in logrotate.d/varnish file:

/var/log/varnish/*log {
                create 640 http log
                compress
                postrotate
                        /bin/kill -USR1 `cat /var/run/varnishncsa.pid 2>/dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
                endscript
        }

And this in my /etc/rc.local file:

varnishncsa -a -w /var/log/varnish/access.log -D -P /var/run/varnishncsa.pid

But when logrotate creates a new access.log file, it remains blank. I have to do sh /etc/rc.local for logs to be saved in that file. As logrotation happens weekly, I have to execute that rc.local every week to get the logs saved in access.log file. What can be the issue here?

varnish logrotate log-rotation

1 Answers

  1. I know absolutely nothing about varnish, but it sure looks like you should be sending it a SIGHUP to do log rotation, not a SIGUSR1.

    A new blank logfile is a pretty good indicator that the daemon isn't getting the message that it's supposed to close it's old logfile and switch to a new one.

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