Log rotation?

Hello!

We’ve run into problems with our Privacyidea installation with the logs
(they ate all the space). When i checked the contents of
/var/log/privacyidea i’ve seen stuff like this:

ls -l | head

total 729040

-rw-r-----. 1 privacyidea privacyidea 0 Dec 7 14:00 privacyidea.log

-rw-r-----. 1 privacyidea privacyidea 0 Dec 4 04:00 privacyidea.log-
20160731.gz-20160807.gz

-rw-r-----. 1 privacyidea privacyidea 0 Dec 4 04:00 privacyidea.log-
20160731.gz-20160807.gz-20160814.gz-20160821.gz

-rw-r-----. 1 privacyidea privacyidea 0 Dec 4 04:00 privacyidea.log-
20160731.gz-20160807.gz-20160814.gz-20160821.gz-20160828.gz-20160904.gz

-rw-r-----. 1 privacyidea privacyidea 0 Dec 4 04:00 privacyidea.log-
20160731.gz-20160807.gz-20160814.gz-20160821.gz-20160828.gz-20160904.gz-
20160911.gz-20160918.gz

-rw-r-----. 1 privacyidea privacyidea 0 Dec 4 04:00 privacyidea.log-
20160731.gz-20160807.gz-20160814.gz-20160821.gz-20160828.gz-20160904.gz-
20160911.gz-20160918.gz-20160925.gz-20161002.gz

-rw-r-----. 1 privacyidea privacyidea 0 Dec 4 04:00 privacyidea.log-
20160731.gz-20160807.gz-20160814.gz-20160821.gz-20160828.gz-20160904.gz-
20160911.gz-20160918.gz-20160925.gz-20161002.gz-20161009.gz

-rw-r-----. 1 privacyidea privacyidea 0 Dec 4 04:00 privacyidea.log-
20160731.gz-20160807.gz-20160814.gz-20160821.gz-20160828.gz-20160904.gz-
20160911.gz-20160918.gz-20160925.gz-20161002.gz-20161009.gz-20161016.gz

-rw-r-----. 1 privacyidea privacyidea 0 Dec 4 04:00 privacyidea.log-
20160731.gz-20160807.gz-20160814.gz-20160821.gz-20160828.gz-20160904.gz-
20160911.gz-20160918.gz-20160925.gz-20161002.gz-20161009.gz-20161016.gz-
20161023.gz

This is a bit strange. Plus i couldn’t find any setting for logrotation in
Privacyidea configuration. Can someone help me out?

Hello,

Please create new logrotate configuration for privacyidea
in /etc/logrotate.d/.
Example conf:

/var/log/privacyidea/*.log {
daily
missingok
rotate 14
compress
delaycompress
notifempty
create 640 privacyidea www-data
}

Regards,
Michal

Karen Tovmasian k.tovmasian@coolblue.nl writes:

We’ve run into problems with our Privacyidea installation with the logs
(they ate all the space). When i checked the contents of
/var/log/privacyidea i’ve seen stuff like this:

-rw-r-----. 1 privacyidea privacyidea 0 Dec 4 04:00 privacyidea.log-
20160731.gz-20160807.gz-20160814.gz-20160821.gz-20160828.gz-20160904.gz-
20160911.gz-20160918.gz-20160925.gz-20161002.gz-20161009.gz-20161016.gz-
20161023.gz

This is a bit strange. Plus i couldn’t find any setting for logrotation in
Privacyidea configuration. Can someone help me out?

Please see
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/privacyidea/Jochen|sort:relevance/privacyidea/fyEBFmQbs3E/BJickJmcCwAJ
and
http://privacyidea.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation/system/logging.html#advanced-logging

In short: privacy rotates the logs without logrotate, but the filename
looks like a broken logrotate config.

Jochen