Rotation of Nginx logs with a twist

rotate-nginx-log.sh

#!/bin/bash

YEAR=`date "+%Y"`
MONTH=`date "+%m"`
DAY=`date "+%d"`

LOG_FILES="access.log error.log"


DATE=$YEAR/$MONTH/$DAY

NGINX_LOG_ROOT=/var/log/nginx

# make path

mkdir -p $NGINX_LOG_ROOT/$DATE

# touch and symlink in new log files

for FILE in $LOG_FILES; do
  LOG_FILE=$NGINX_LOG_ROOT/$DATE/$FILE
  touch $LOG_FILE
  ln -fs $LOG_FILE $NGINX_LOG_ROOT/$FILE
done

# tell nginx to re-open its log files

kill -USR1 `cat /var/run/nginx.pid`