Apache daily logrotate

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I want to create daily logs, but there's a small problem. Logs aren't being created for each day, rather they contain the previous log files. Here's my current setup, how can I change it so it only create a log file for each day?

I edit the following file : /etc/logrotate.d/httpd

I'm using a control panel called Zadmin so I included its log path as a second dir.

I'm using CentOS 6.5 64 bit.

/var/log/httpd/*log /var/sentora/logs/domains/zadmin/*.log {
    missingok
    rotate 4000000
    daily
    notifempty
    sharedscripts
    postrotate
    /sbin/service httpd reload > /dev/null 2>/dev/null || true
    endscript
}

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Following on to Brian's answer, I'm a big fan of cronolog, which does pretty much exactly what you're going for:

CustomLog "|/usr/sbin/cronolog /var/log/httpd/%Y/%m/%Y-%m-%d-access.log" combined
ErrorLog "|/usr/sbin/cronolog /var/log/httpd/%Y/%m/%Y-%m-%d-error.log"

yum install cronolog will get you cronolog on Cent6.

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this is the text from the man page:

firstaction/endscript
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man logrotate

   dateformat format_string
          Specify  the  extension for dateext using the notation similar to strftime(3) function. Only %Y %m
          %d and %s specifiers are allowed.  The default value is -%Y%m%d. Note that also the character sep‐
          arating log name from the extension is part of the dateformat string. The system clock must be set
          past Sep 9th 2001 for %s to work correctly.  Note that the datestamps  generated  by  this  format
          must be lexically sortable (i.e., first the year, then the month then the day. e.g., 2001/12/01 is
          ok, but 01/12/2001 is not, since 01/11/2002 would sort lower while it is later).  This is  because
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Can anyone please tell me if "dateext" is correct? I want the log filename to be something like "access.log-2010-12-04".

Insert a dateformat directive to your configuration file, something like this:

 /usr/local/nginx/logs/*.log {
    daily
    dateext
    dateformat -%Y-%m-%d
    ...

One more thing: Can I do the log rotation every day on a specific time (e.g. 11 pm)?

By default, logrotate is running via cron at 4 A.M:

/etc/cron.daily/logrotate

#!/bin/sh

/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf
EXITVALUE=$?
if [ $EXITVALUE != 0 ]; then
    /usr/bin/logger -t logrotate "ALERT exited abnormally with [$EXITVALUE]"
fi
exit 0

You can move this file to somewhere and rename to logrotate.sh, then create a new file in /etc/cron.d/ as belows:

0 23 * * * root /path/to/logrotate.sh

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