Configure logrotate

To rotate the log files (production and search logs) and avoid them becoming really huge we recommend using logrotate. To configure it you have to do the following commands:

cp /u/apps/vish/current/lib/scripts/restart_sphinx.sh /u/apps/vish/shared/scripts/.
chmod +x /u/apps/vish/shared/scripts/restart_sphinx.sh

Now edit a file called /etc/logrotate.d/vish with the content of the file located in your vish installation at the path /extras/logrotate.conf changing the word username for your real Ubuntu username.

The content of the /extras/logrotate.conf file is:

/u/apps/vish/shared/log/production.log {
  weekly
  missingok
  rotate 12
  maxage 84
  notifempty
  create 0660 username www-data
  sharedscripts
  compress
  delaycompress
  su username www-data
  postrotate
    touch  /u/apps/vish/current/tmp/restart.txt
  endscript
}

 /u/apps/vish/shared/log/search*.log {
  weekly
  missingok
  rotate 12
  maxage 84
  notifempty
  create 0777 username www-data
  sharedscripts
  compress
  delaycompress
  su username www-data
  postrotate
    bash -c "export CAP_USER=username && /u/apps/vish/shared/scripts/restart_sphinx.sh"
  endscript
}