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

Mon Jun 24 16:14:05 UTC 2024

Thanks, logrotate has been a hit and miss so far - I suspect it is a
combination of permissions and/or settings

Marek

On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 10:12 AM CS <cs.temp.mail at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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