Is the the logrotate initialisation correct?

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Hello,

I took a look at the logrotate initialisation because I need lot of logs right now to develop my app taking care to not fill up the available space.

But I saw that the config file is not /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog but /etc/logrotate.d/syslog instead.
well ok maybe but in it, I can see:

 postrotate
    /etc/init.d/rsyslog reload 2> /dev/null || true
 endscript

But again there is no /etc/init.d/rsyslog but /etc/init.d/syslog instead and again in it I can see:

NAME=rsyslog
....
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME

So it’s confusing !?!

Alain

2

What about /etc/syslog-startup.conf ?

3

/etc/syslog-startup.conf is

DESTINATION=buffer      # log destinations (buffer file remote)
LOGFILE=/var/log/messages   # where to log (file)
REMOTE=loghost:514      # where to log (syslog remote)
REDUCE=no           # reduce-size logging
DROPDUPLICATES=no       # whether to drop duplicate log entries
#ROTATESIZE=0           # rotate log if grown beyond X [kByte]
#ROTATEGENS=3           # keep X generations of rotated logs
BUFFERSIZE=2000         # size of circular buffer [kByte]
FOREGROUND=no           # run in foreground (don't use!)
#LOGLEVEL=5         # local log level (between 1 and 8)

And so?

4

Hi AlBo,

Maybe I misunderstand the question? Would you please clarify?

I guess you are asking how to modify the log buffer size to save big log from your app?
If yes, then we can modify and increase the default “BUFFERSIZE”.

5

I’m surprised by the confusion referencing rsyslog in where the files are named syslog in several places.

Now, if busybox uses /etc/syslog-startup.conf it’s again more confusing to me. Why the usual configuration files are still here and finally what is actually used and not used?

Alain

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Hi Alain,

Does this issue solved?
Do you have chance to test configure “/etc/syslog-startup.conf” and see what happen?

Thx