apache – Urs-o-Log

IBM HTTP Server: Better logrotate for HTTP server logs in Linux

To rotate your IBM HTTP Server logs (or Apache HTTP server logs) on a daily (or whatever) basis, you normally are using something like

CommonLog "|/opt/IBM/HTTPServer/bin/rotatelog -l /opt/IBM/HTTPServer/log/access_log.%Y.%m.%d 5M" common

1	CommonLog "\|/opt/IBM/HTTPServer/bin/rotatelog -l /opt/IBM/HTTPServer/log/access_log.%Y.%m.%d 5M" common

The disadvantage of that is, that the current log file name changes every day. So if you have e.g.

Java cannot access network if IPV6 present

Recently I had the problem that some Java based applications (e.g. Apache Directory Studio and JXplorer) were not able to connect to other servers on my Windows 7 machine. After some investigation I realized that the reason for that was