Re: [Asterisk-Users] Syslog file size
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 01:00:45PM +1000, YT Lim wrote: Does anyone know how to limit syslog file size? Logrotate only rotates log files (i.e. irrelevant of file size), and a log file size can grow extremely large before it is rotated. Logrotate is invoked (by default) as a daily cron job and then decides if it should rotate/delete logs . Usually it only rotates by dates, but it can also rotate by log file size. Still, it won't monitor the log files constantly and rotate as soon as the logs reach a certain size, if that is what you need. Weekly rotation is usually good enough. Daily rotation won't save you enough time behind. Try to make your programs less verbose. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Syslog file size
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 01:00:45PM +1000, YT Lim wrote: Does anyone know how to limit syslog file size? Logrotate only rotates log files (i.e. irrelevant of file size), and a log file size can grow extremely large before it is rotated. Logrotate is invoked (by default) as a daily cron job and then decides if it should rotate/delete logs . Usually it only rotates by dates, but it can also rotate by log file size. Still, it won't monitor the log files constantly and rotate as soon as the logs reach a certain size, if that is what you need. Weekly rotation is usually good enough. Daily rotation won't save you enough time behind. Try to make your programs less verbose. You can have a cron job do /usr/sbin/logrotate someconfigfile as often as you want. Just make sure someconfigfile has reasonable parameters for things like size so it won't be doing rotation and compression unless needed. To get an idea of resources used when no rotation is needed just do something like time /usr/bin/logrotate someconfigfile when the size argument is met and then do it again right away. Here is what I get when the asterisk logs don't need to be rotated: real0m0.002s user0m0.001s sys 0m0.001s ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
RE: [Asterisk-Users] Syslog file size
Not possible to do natively Write a script yourself to monior it's size and invoke logrotate to rotate it when that size is reached. And cron your script however often you want (ie 10 times a day?) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of YT Lim Sent: Monday, 12 September 2005 1:01 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Syslog file size Does anyone know how to limit syslog file size? Logrotate only rotates log files (i.e. irrelevant of file size), and a log file size can grow extremely large before it is rotated. /Y.T. Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Movies: Check out the Latest Trailers, Premiere Photos and full Actor Database. http://au.movies.yahoo.com ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
RE: [Asterisk-Users] Syslog file size
Thanks. I'm afraid that's the case. But I remember reading somewhere that some syslog variants of syslogd actually have the file size limit build-in. --- Brad Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not possible to do natively Write a script yourself to monior it's size and invoke logrotate to rotate it when that size is reached. And cron your script however often you want (ie 10 times a day?) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of YT Lim Sent: Monday, 12 September 2005 1:01 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Syslog file size Does anyone know how to limit syslog file size? Logrotate only rotates log files (i.e. irrelevant of file size), and a log file size can grow extremely large before it is rotated. /Y.T. Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Movies: Check out the Latest Trailers, Premiere Photos and full Actor Database. http://au.movies.yahoo.com ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Movies: Check out the Latest Trailers, Premiere Photos and full Actor Database. http://au.movies.yahoo.com ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Syslog file size
Hi, This page http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/logrotate8.html has a sample config file with a file size option __ Yahoo! for Good Watch the Hurricane Katrina Shelter From The Storm concert http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/shelter ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users