Log rotation?

[Karen Tovmasian]

Hello!

We've run into problems with our Privacyidea installation with the logs (they ate all the space). When i checked the contents of /var/log/privacyidea i've seen stuff like this:

# ls -l | head

total 729040

-rw-r-----. 1 privacyidea privacyidea     0 Dec  7 14:00 privacyidea.log

-rw-r-----. 1 privacyidea privacyidea     0 Dec  4 04:00 privacyidea.log-20160731.gz-20160807.gz

-rw-r-----. 1 privacyidea privacyidea     0 Dec  4 04:00 privacyidea.log-20160731.gz-20160807.gz-20160814.gz-20160821.gz

-rw-r-----. 1 privacyidea privacyidea     0 Dec  4 04:00 privacyidea.log-20160731.gz-20160807.gz-20160814.gz-20160821.gz-20160828.gz-20160904.gz

-rw-r-----. 1 privacyidea privacyidea     0 Dec  4 04:00 privacyidea.log-20160731.gz-20160807.gz-20160814.gz-20160821.gz-20160828.gz-20160904.gz-20160911.gz-20160918.gz

-rw-r-----. 1 privacyidea privacyidea     0 Dec  4 04:00 privacyidea.log-20160731.gz-20160807.gz-20160814.gz-20160821.gz-20160828.gz-20160904.gz-20160911.gz-20160918.gz-20160925.gz-20161002.gz

-rw-r-----. 1 privacyidea privacyidea     0 Dec  4 04:00 privacyidea.log-20160731.gz-20160807.gz-20160814.gz-20160821.gz-20160828.gz-20160904.gz-20160911.gz-20160918.gz-20160925.gz-20161002.gz-20161009.gz

-rw-r-----. 1 privacyidea privacyidea     0 Dec  4 04:00 privacyidea.log-20160731.gz-20160807.gz-20160814.gz-20160821.gz-20160828.gz-20160904.gz-20160911.gz-20160918.gz-20160925.gz-20161002.gz-20161009.gz-20161016.gz

-rw-r-----. 1 privacyidea privacyidea     0 Dec  4 04:00 privacyidea.log-20160731.gz-20160807.gz-20160814.gz-20160821.gz-20160828.gz-20160904.gz-20160911.gz-20160918.gz-20160925.gz-20161002.gz-20161009.gz-20161016.gz-20161023.gz

This is a bit strange. Plus i couldn't find any setting for logrotation in Privacyidea configuration. Can someone help me out?

[Michał Lewandowski]

Hello,

Please create new logrotate configuration for privacyidea in /etc/logrotate.d/.

Example conf:

/var/log/privacyidea/*.log {

        daily

        missingok

        rotate 14

        compress

        delaycompress

        notifempty

        create 640 privacyidea www-data

}

Regards,

Michal

[Jochen Hein]

Karen Tovmasian <k.tov...@coolblue.nl> writes:

> We've run into problems with our Privacyidea installation with the logs
> (they ate all the space). When i checked the contents of
> /var/log/privacyidea i've seen stuff like this:

> -rw-r-----. 1 privacyidea privacyidea 0 Dec 4 04:00 privacyidea.log-

> 20160731.gz-20160807.gz-20160814.gz-20160821.gz-20160828.gz-20160904.gz-
> 20160911.gz-20160918.gz-20160925.gz-20161002.gz-20161009.gz-20161016.gz-
> 20161023.gz

>
> This is a bit strange. Plus i couldn't find any setting for logrotation in
> Privacyidea configuration. Can someone help me out?

Please see
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/privacyidea/Jochen%7Csort:relevance/privacyidea/fyEBFmQbs3E/BJickJmcCwAJ
and
http://privacyidea.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation/system/logging.html#advanced-logging

In short: privacy rotates the logs without logrotate, but the filename
looks like a broken logrotate config.

Jochen