Re: [Astlinux-users] logrotate configuration

[Lonnie A. <li...@lo...>]

> On Sep 5, 2020, at 2:34 AM, Michael Keuter <li...@mk...> wrote:
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>> Am 05.09.2020 um 06:52 schrieb Michael Knill <mic...@ip...>:
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>> Hi Group
>> 
>> I'm wanting to change some log rotation configuration for Asterisk logging and just wondering the best way.
>> I want to change the log size from 100k to 10m in /etc/logrotate.d/asterisk.
>> Shall I just edit this file directly?
>> 
>> Regards
>> Michael Knill
> 
> Hi Michael,
>  
> yes, I do edit the files directly in "/etc/logrotate.d/". They are stored in UnionFS. 
> 
> Michael

Yes, but keep in mind the default location for logs is /var/log/ (/var/ is on tmpfs) and VAR_SIZE defaults to 10000k (10 MB).

So changing the asterisk log size from 100k to 10m, with 1 rotation can use 20 MB of space.

You would need to set VAR_SIZE in your user.conf to something much larger, for example:
--
VAR_SIZE="40000k"
--
Also keep in mind this is only a limit, it does not allocate RAM for the tmpfs volume until it is needed.


A related note, why do a few programs like logrotate, tarsnap, sudo not have a /mnt/kd/ symlink.  Well, these programs are standalone and do not require a service init.d script, as such there is no script to symlink /etc/foo -> /mnt/kd/foo.  AstLinux could create dummy service init.d scripts for these cases, but chose not to and allow users to simply edit the /etc/ config files directly.  Additionally, many users will never have the need to edit these files.

Editable Files
https://doc.astlinux-project.org/userdoc:tt_editable_files


Lonnie