Package: apache2 Severity: wishlist Apache, at least in Wheezy, seems to be configured by default to keep 52 log files, rotated on a weekly basis, meaning that logs are kept for a year.
This is a long time to keep longs. It exposes our users unduly to surveillance and privacy breaches. It also means a lot of data to keep on disk for busy webservers. For any moderately to high traffic webserver, this can actually fill up /var pretty fast. For example, a server with an average of 12 hits per second: http://stats.koumbit.net/koumbit.net/ceres.koumbit.net/apache_accesses.html ... accumulates around 30MB *per day*. That means 11GB per year. I suspect the default partitionning would not allocate enough space for /var at all on most systems to cover for that. I would suggest following the policies set for /var/log/syslog, which are rotate daily and keey 7 days. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.6 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages apache2 depends on: pn apache2-mpm-worker | apache2-mpm-prefork | apache2-mpm-event | apac <none> pn apache2.2-common <none> apache2 recommends no packages. apache2 suggests no packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org