Re: can we stop logging for certain service.

[Aleksander]

Qi Lu wrote:

> We have a logging message to indicate Apache2 server pid has been 
> changed every day. This is because the cron job does apache logrotate 
> everyday, which restarts apache2.

Hi,

AFAIK, you don't have to restart apache, a reload will do. In the 
logrotate config do a reload, if the init script supports it.

From /etc/logrotate.d/apache2:

    postrotate
     /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

IIRC this should work for older versions too. I'm using the 2.2 series.

Alex