Is there a way to run a configtest utility (e.g. apache2ctl -t) before trying to restart a service when one of its configuration files changed?
Use case here is that I want to be resilient against configuration errors in an apache config (because apache just stops when it sees the config error, leaving me with a stopped apache)
Today I experienced this error a second time in two weeks and I wonder why that is?
Is it more a hardware- or software-related thing? (e.g. what should I check?)
That DB server didn't have any problems until now...
I have an apache/nginx/whatever web server which logs client IP addresses to the access logs. Now these log files are rotated via logrotate.
I want to keep the IP addresses for some days, then after 7 days, I want to remove the IPs from the log files for privacy reasons (mostly dictated by German law).
Using mod_removeip or something like that doesn't work because I need to filter some requests based on their IP addresses.
Is there any 'standard' way to do it? Maybe even with logrotate?
EDIT
I just found this script but it depends on the ability to pipe all logging through the script in real-time. I'm not really sure about the performance implication of this approach.
Also, this only works for the 'front-end' server logs, not the application server logs.