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diff --git a/tools/man1/qsrotate.1 b/tools/man1/qsrotate.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..754e8f4 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/man1/qsrotate.1 @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +.TH QSROTATE 1 "May 2023" "mod_qos utilities 11.74" "qsrotate man page" + +.SH NAME +qsrotate \- a log rotation tool (similar to Apache's rotatelogs). +.SH SYNOPSIS +qsrotate \-o <file> [\-s <sec> [\-t <hours>]] [\-b <bytes>] [\-f] [\-z] [\-g <num>] [\-u <name>] [\-m <mask>] [\-p] [\-d] +.SH DESCRIPTION +qsrotate reads from stdin (piped log) and writes the data to the provided file rotating the file after the specified time. +.SH OPTIONS +.TP +\-o <file> +Output log file to write the data to (use an absolute path). +.TP +\-s <sec> +Rotation interval in seconds, default are 86400 seconds. +.TP +\-t <hours> +Offset to UTC (enables also DST support), default is 0. +.TP +\-b <bytes> +File size limitation (default/max. are 2147352576 bytes, min. are 1048576 bytes). +.TP +\-f +Forced log rotation at the specified interval even no data is written. +.TP +\-z +Compress (gzip) the rotated file. +.TP +\-g <num> +Generations (number of files to keep). +.TP +\-u <name> +Become another user, e.g. www\-data. \-m <mask> +File permission which is either 600, 640, 660 (default) or 664. +.TP +\-p +Writes data also to stdout (for piped logging). \-d +Line\-by\-line data reading prefixing every line with a timestamp. +.SH EXAMPLE + TransferLog "|/usr/bin/qsrotate \-f \-z \-g 3 \-o /var/log/apache/access.log \-s 86400" + +The name of the rotated file will be /dest/filee.YYYYmmddHHMMSS where YYYYmmddHHMMSS is the system time at which the data has been rotated. +.SH NOTE + \- Each qsrotate instance must use an individual file. + \- You may trigger a file rotation manually by sending the signal USR1 +to the process. +.SH SEE ALSO +qsdt(1), qsexec(1), qsfilter2(1), qsgeo(1), qsgrep(1), qshead(1), qslog(1), qslogger(1), qsre(1), qsrespeed(1), qspng(1), qssign(1), qstail(1) +.SH AUTHOR +Pascal Buchbinder, http://mod-qos.sourceforge.net/ |