[Kea-users] loggers: support for file compression with enabled rotation

Mon Jun 24 16:14:08 UTC 2024

I am not an expert in Kea so if there are other solutions to this there
hopefully someone better chimes in, but my first instinct would be to let
logrotate handle this.
https://www.linuxtechi.com/manage-linux-log-files-using-logrotate/
CS, cs.Temp.Mail at gMail.com

On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 at 08:28, Marek Hajduczenia <mxhajduczenia at gmail.com>
wrote:

> As per subject, is there any way to trigger standard compression
> mechanisms against rotated log files? I have multiple files as shown below,
> with log size set to 100M, 10 files per log class, and I would like to see
> whether it was possible to trigger compression against the rotated log
> files (.1 … .10) to decrease their size on the drive. If that was possible,
> I could expand the size of individual log files and hold on to them a tad
> longer.
>
>
>
> I did check the existing documentation and it does not seem like there is
> anything accounted for. I would rather avoid platform-specific setup and
> rely on Kea logger feature, if possible.
>
>
>
> Regards
>
>
>
> Marek
>
>
>
> root at server-kea-node1:/var/log/kea# ls -lah
>
> total 2.9G
>
> drwxr-x---  2 _kea _kea   4.0K Jun 24 14:47 .
>
> drwxrwxr-x 10 root syslog 4.0K Jun 24 00:00 ..
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea    57M Jun 24 14:53 dhcp4-all.log
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea      0 Jun 21 13:34 dhcp4-all.log.lock
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea   3.6M Jun 24 14:53 dhcp4-dhcpsrv.log
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea      0 Jun 21 13:34 dhcp4-dhcpsrv.log.lock
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea    20M Jun 24 14:53 dhcp4-eval.log
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea    98M Jun 24 14:47 dhcp4-eval.log.1
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea    98M Jun 24 10:11 dhcp4-eval.log.10
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea    98M Jun 24 14:16 dhcp4-eval.log.2
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea    98M Jun 24 13:45 dhcp4-eval.log.3
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea    98M Jun 24 13:14 dhcp4-eval.log.4
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea    98M Jun 24 12:43 dhcp4-eval.log.5
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea    98M Jun 24 12:12 dhcp4-eval.log.6
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea    98M Jun 24 11:42 dhcp4-eval.log.7
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea    98M Jun 24 11:11 dhcp4-eval.log.8
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea    98M Jun 24 10:41 dhcp4-eval.log.9
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea      0 Jun 21 13:34 dhcp4-eval.log.lock
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea   1.8M Jun 24 14:53 dhcp4-leases.log
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea      0 Jun 21 13:34 dhcp4-leases.log.lock
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea    30M Jun 24 14:53 dhcp4-packets.log
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea    98M Jun 24 11:20 dhcp4-packets.log.1
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea    98M Jun 23 23:36 dhcp4-packets.log.2
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea    98M Jun 23 11:53 dhcp4-packets.log.3
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea    98M Jun 23 00:12 dhcp4-packets.log.4
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea    98M Jun 22 12:27 dhcp4-packets.log.5
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea    98M Jun 22 00:56 dhcp4-packets.log.6
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea      0 Jun 21 13:34 dhcp4-packets.log.lock
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea    71M Jun 24 14:53 dhcp4-pad-packets.log
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea      0 Jun 21 13:34 dhcp4-pad-packets.log.lock
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea    26M Jun 24 14:53 dhcp6-all.log
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea      0 Jun 21 12:18 dhcp6-all.log.lock
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea   984K Jun 24 14:53 dhcp6-dhcpsrv.log
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea      0 Jun 21 12:18 dhcp6-dhcpsrv.log.lock
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea    60M Jun 24 14:53 dhcp6-eval.log
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea    98M Jun 24 11:54 dhcp6-eval.log.1
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea    98M Jun 22 17:54 dhcp6-eval.log.10
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea    98M Jun 24 07:51 dhcp6-eval.log.2
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea    98M Jun 24 03:38 dhcp6-eval.log.3
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea    98M Jun 23 23:23 dhcp6-eval.log.4
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea    98M Jun 23 19:08 dhcp6-eval.log.5
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea    98M Jun 23 14:06 dhcp6-eval.log.6
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea    98M Jun 23 09:01 dhcp6-eval.log.7
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea    98M Jun 23 04:02 dhcp6-eval.log.8
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea    98M Jun 22 22:51 dhcp6-eval.log.9
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea      0 Jun 21 12:18 dhcp6-eval.log.lock
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea   2.4M Jun 24 14:53 dhcp6-leases.log
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea      0 Jun 21 12:18 dhcp6-leases.log.lock
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea   957K Jun 24 14:53 dhcp6-packets.log
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea    98M Jun 24 14:11 dhcp6-packets.log.1
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea      0 Jun 21 12:18 dhcp6-packets.log.lock
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea    17K Jun 23 08:59 dhcp6-pad-packets.log
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea      0 Jun 21 12:18 dhcp6-pad-packets.log.lock
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