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<META name='KeyWords' content='Quality of Service, QoS, Apache Web Server, Web application security, WAF, Open Source Software, Security, Proxy'/>
<META name='author' content='Pascal Buchbinder' />
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<H1>QSROTATE</H1>
Section: qsrotate man page (1)<BR>Updated: May 2023<BR><A HREF="#index">Index</A>
<A HREF="index.html#utilities">Return to Main Contents</A><HR>
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<H2>NAME</H2>
qsrotate - a log rotation tool (similar to Apache's rotatelogs).
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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2>
qsrotate -o <file> [-s <sec> [-t <hours>]] [-b <bytes>] [-f] [-z] [-g <num>] [-u <name>] [-m <mask>] [-p] [-d]
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2>
qsrotate reads from stdin (piped log) and writes the data to the provided file rotating the file after the specified time.
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<H2>OPTIONS</H2>
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<DT>-o <file> <DD>
Output log file to write the data to (use an absolute path).
<DT>-s <sec> <DD>
Rotation interval in seconds, default are 86400 seconds.
<DT>-t <hours> <DD>
Offset to UTC (enables also DST support), default is 0.
<DT>-b <bytes> <DD>
File size limitation (default/max. are 2147352576 bytes, min. are 1048576 bytes).
<DT>-f <DD>
Forced log rotation at the specified interval even no data is written.
<DT>-z <DD>
Compress (gzip) the rotated file.
<DT>-g <num> <DD>
Generations (number of files to keep).
<DT>-u <name> <DD>
Become another user, e.g. www-data. -m <mask>
File permission which is either 600, 640, 660 (default) or 664.
<DT>-p <DD>
Writes data also to stdout (for piped logging). -d
Line-by-line data reading prefixing every line with a timestamp.
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<H2>EXAMPLE</H2>
<BR> TransferLog "|/usr/bin/qsrotate -f -z -g 3 -o /var/log/apache/access.log -s 86400"
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The name of the rotated file will be /dest/filee.YYYYmmddHHMMSS where YYYYmmddHHMMSS is the system time at which the data has been rotated.
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<H2>NOTE</H2>
<BR> - Each qsrotate instance must use an individual file.
<BR> - You may trigger a file rotation manually by sending the signal USR1
to the process.
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2>
<A HREF="qsdt.1.html">qsdt</A>(1), <A HREF="qsexec.1.html">qsexec</A>(1), <A HREF="qsfilter2.1.html">qsfilter2</A>(1), <A HREF="qsgeo.1.html">qsgeo</A>(1), <A HREF="qsgrep.1.html">qsgrep</A>(1), <A HREF="qshead.1.html">qshead</A>(1), <A HREF="qslog.1.html">qslog</A>(1), <A HREF="qslogger.1.html">qslogger</A>(1), <A HREF="qsre.1.html">qsre</A>(1), <A HREF="qsrespeed.1.html">qsrespeed</A>(1), <A HREF="qspng.1.html">qspng</A>(1), <A HREF="qssign.1.html">qssign</A>(1), <A HREF="qstail.1.html">qstail</A>(1)
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<H2>AUTHOR</H2>
Pascal Buchbinder, <A HREF="http://mod-qos.sourceforge.net/">http://mod-qos.sourceforge.net/</A>
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<DT><A HREF="#lbAB">NAME</A><DD>
<DT><A HREF="#lbAC">SYNOPSIS</A><DD>
<DT><A HREF="#lbAD">DESCRIPTION</A><DD>
<DT><A HREF="#lbAE">OPTIONS</A><DD>
<DT><A HREF="#lbAF">EXAMPLE</A><DD>
<DT><A HREF="#lbAG">NOTE</A><DD>
<DT><A HREF="#lbAH">SEE ALSO</A><DD>
<DT><A HREF="#lbAI">AUTHOR</A><DD>
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