I've tried this tutorial to rotate log file without external software, but it seems it doesn't work, my configuration on the server {
block:
if ($time_iso8601 ~ "^(?<year>\d{4})-(?<month>\d{2})-(?<day>\d{2})") {}
access_log /var/log/access-$year-$month-$day.log;
error_log /var/log/error-$year-$month-$day.log;
and the file created, named:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 28 17:46 error-$year-$month-$day.log
my NginX version:
nginx version: nginx/1.8.0
built with OpenSSL 1.0.2a 19 Mar 2015
TLS SNI support enabled
configure arguments: --prefix=/etc/nginx --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --sbin-path=/usr/bin/nginx --pid-path=/run/nginx.pid --lock-path=/run/lock/nginx.lock --user=http --group=http --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log --error-log-path=stderr --http-client-body-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/client-body --http-proxy-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/proxy --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/fastcgi --http-scgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/scgi --http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/uwsgi --with-imap --with-imap_ssl_module --with-ipv6 --with-pcre-jit --with-file-aio --with-http_dav_module --with-http_gunzip_module --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_realip_module --with-http_spdy_module --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_stub_status_module --with-http_addition_module --with-http_degradation_module --with-http_flv_module --with-http_mp4_module --with-http_secure_link_module --with-http_sub_module