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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>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. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Regards<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Marek<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>root@server-kea-node1:/var/log/kea# ls -lah<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>total 2.9G<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>drwxr-x--- 2 _kea _kea 4.0K Jun 24 14:47 .<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>drwxrwxr-x 10 root syslog 4.0K Jun 24 00:00 ..<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>-rw-r--r-- 1 _kea _kea 57M Jun 24 14:53 dhcp4-all.log<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>-rw-r--r-- 1 _kea _kea 0 Jun 21 13:34 dhcp4-all.log.lock<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>-rw-r--r-- 1 _kea _kea 3.6M Jun 24 14:53 dhcp4-dhcpsrv.log<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>-rw-r--r-- 1 _kea _kea 0 Jun 21 13:34 dhcp4-dhcpsrv.log.lock<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>-rw-r--r-- 1 _kea _kea 20M Jun 24 14:53 dhcp4-eval.log<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>-rw-r--r-- 1 _kea _kea 98M Jun 24 14:47 dhcp4-eval.log.1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>-rw-r--r-- 1 _kea _kea 98M Jun 24 10:11 dhcp4-eval.log.10<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>-rw-r--r-- 1 _kea _kea 98M Jun 24 14:16 dhcp4-eval.log.2<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>-rw-r--r-- 1 _kea _kea 98M Jun 24 13:45 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