Re: [leaf-devel] ulogd does not use new logfile after rotation

[Eric S. <E.S...@in...>]

Hi Erich,
>>
>>
>>> Using different logrotation methods is IMHO not very reasonable. I am
>>>  not using shorewall for my big production systems and just added the
>>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>
>> I think I know what is going wrong. You're not using shorewall, why
>> do you use ulogd? Ulogd is used exclusively for shorewall, so if you
>> don't use shorewall you don't need ulogd.
>
>
> There are more things between heaven and hell but shorewall.
> Other programs may use ulogd as well, for example firewall builder,
> which is a fine interface to iptables for complex situations. I just wanted
> to use the built-in logrotation without my own logratate script, which, of
> course I could write but do not really need to.
>
> I do not believe in reinventing the wheel though, so I just added the
> fwb.log to leaf.conf, which IMHO is exactly the place to add the necessary
> parameters for log rotation.
>
> If you feel that modifying multicron-p is not the way to do it
> generally, then please add it to etc.local, so anyone inclined to do so may
> do so and save it in configdb.
>
The correct place to change this is the ulogd cron.daily file, lrp.conf is
for configuration of the logfiles served by syslogd. I will look for an
option to pass the ulogd.conf logfile parameters to the cron.daily script,
so this will handled automatically (like done in mhttpd).

> cheers
>
> Erich
>
Eric