Dan,
currently the web server logs RAS accesses and errors to:
/var/log/apache2/authors.repec.org-access
/var/log/apache2/authors.repec.org-errors
Do you think you could reconfigure apache to write those logs in
/home/aras/ and change ownership to aras for them?
then the ~/bin/nightly script would be able to both send the daily
portion of the ...-errors log out and to rotate both logs immediately
afterwards.
-i