Continuing in our series on logging, with a quick look at cronolog which is another powerful logging tool you can employ on your systems. With cronolog you can organize your logs into a chronological hierarchy of files. An interesting twist is the symbolic linking of the current log file back to a specified location which can be useful in working with log analyzers like Webalizer and AccessWatch.
Once again it is we will define a custom log format but you can use a predefined one if that suits your needs. Remember if you intend to use this format on multiple virtual hosts then you should consider defining it either in the main httpd.conf or a config file that is included prior to the vhost config.
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t "%r" %>s %b" SpecialLog