Rotated logs review

[TrystanLea]

Screenshots of my rotated logs based on the logrotate and log2ram configuration on the present release (https://github.com/openenergymonitor/EmonScripts/tree/master/defaults/etc/logrotate.d):

Is this number of rotated logs based on the 100k rotation unwieldy? too many files to open and work through, if you wanted to find an error?

[pb66]

Both the emonhub and emoncms logrotate config drop-ins should have their own maxsize= settings.

Even 1M was always way too small for emonhub, 3-5M maybe?

and the apache logs should also be getting sent to emoncms log folder by the vhost and then being rotated at the higher maxsize into /var/log.old/emoncms. Why are they in /var/log.old?

[TrystanLea]

Hmm I'm not sure why the apache logs are there, the vhost settings direct them to /var/log/emoncms and they are also there - though not gzip'ed..

quite a few files over 100k too..

[TrystanLea]

File permissions where wrong on 00_defaults

[TrystanLea]

The apache2 log not in the emoncms folder is created by this entry in conf-enabled:

[TrystanLea]

I've changed it to /var/log/emoncms/apache2-error.log there for now and fixed the permissions on 00_defaults

[TrystanLea]

I've changed the maxsize on emoncms and emonhub logs to 3M

[pb66]

I've changed it to /var/log/emoncms/apache2-error.log there for now

That sounds like it's the right place to set the default error log on an emonSD permanently.

fixed the permissions on 00_defaults

What is "00_defaults" ?

[edit] Ah! I've found it! I think that name (and maybe some others) are a bit vague. granted it might make slightly more sense whilst located in the logrotate.d folder, but even then it should be maybe "00-emonsd" because it is the emonSD global logrotate conf file. (looking at some other drop-in files the theme seems to be hyphens rather than underscores when prefixing a number), this file may become superfluous if the L2R drop-in defines a global along the same lines, which I suspect it will, I just haven't tackled the extended logrotate in any depth yet.