[Freeipa-users] Do you use logrotate?

[Dmitri Pal]

On 09/11/2012 08:18 AM, Christian Horn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 06:07:57PM -0400, Dmitri Pal wrote:
>> Does anyone use logrotate?
> Not yet, indeed good idea.
>
>
>> Have you seen something else that would be valuable for others to
>> consider when configuring logrotate with IPA? 
> IPA has many services writing to independent files.  Having these
> logs collected in a central place seems to be a common desire.
> For DNS syslog is used and can directly log to a remote location.
>
> For the other services the best idea so far seems to be to have
> a cronjob which uses rsync/ssh to centrally store the logs.
>
> This can be implemented without much further thought.
> If logrotate is used on the IPA servers, but also longer logs
> should be kept on the central server, further thoughts would
> be needed here..
>
>
> Thats the only relevant thing coming to mind for the topic.
> Christian
>

Collecting log centrally is a separate topic.
I want to focus on the logrotate configuration and potential issues
people might have or have had in the past related to logrotate causing
IPA to fail.


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Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

Sr. Engineering Manager for IdM portfolio
Red Hat Inc.


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