Script or cron job for Cpanel web stats management?

[samsam]

Hi:

I'm setting up a CENTOS 4.3 LAMP web server as a basic intranet server (document sharing/ management, forum etc).

One of the things I'd like to be able to get it to do is manage the webserver logs like cPanel does on my Dathorn external web sites - ie:

-roll them over daily;
-save them with names in the format site-date.log or similar;
-then gz them all up automatically at the end of the month into a file names sitename-year-month.gz

This is not 100% essential, but it would certainly be real handy.

Does anyone have a ideas how I can achieve this, or the cron job syntax cPanel uses to do this?

All advice much appreciated. The answer is probably quite simple, but I can't get my head around it.

[AndrewT]

I'd look into using logrotate, it should already be on the system.

[samsam]

I'd look into using logrotate, it should already be on the system.

Thanks Andrew.

Is that what cPanel uses?

You couldn't cut-and-paste me the bash scripts or perl jobs cPanel uses, could you, or whatever they are using (inc logrotate)?

I could Google the matter, but I am at the moment all Linux-ed out. You know what I mean I am sure.

(GOD I miss my old Windows 2000 IIS server. Life was so much easier then.)

[AndrewT]

cPanel's setup is fairly complicated and I would not use it at all. logrotate is far more reliable.