I originally specified the Z flag for the apache logs. This is bad. That will compress the logs. I strongly suspect it returns immediately and we have a problem. To Do would be to enhance newsyslog to wait until all processes have closed the logfile which is to be rotated.
Many utilities log by open-append, write, close, per incident.
As newsyslog is implemented, that is fine. For now the quickest solution is not to use the compress option in newsyslog. DVL Software Ltd. All rights reserved.