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Kirk Ouimet
Asked: 2013-06-28 23:11:00 +0800 CST

How does nginx handle log file growth by default?

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I'm a bit worried because its been a couple of days and my access log file is up to 250MB+. Does it roll log files over and delete them? I'd like for there only to be 1GB or less of log files total.

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1 Answers

  1. Unlike apache, which provides the rotatelogs utility, ngingx relies on the OS for this task, specifically in the logrotate(8) utility.

    In the nginx wiki, it is noted that file rotation can be safely handled using the USR1 signal. The same wiki page links to the Debian default lograte(8) script installed along the nginx package:

    /var/log/nginx/*.log {
        daily
        missingok
        rotate 52
        compress
        delaycompress
        notifempty
        create 640 root adm
        sharedscripts
        postrotate
                [ ! -f /var/run/nginx.pid ] || kill -USR1 `cat /var/run/nginx.pid`
        endscript
}
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