Need guidance on logrotate on FreeNAS ?

[Varun Chandak]

I have FreeNAS 9.2.1.7 installed on a USB drive and recently I checked that logs are not getting rotated. Can anyone guide me on how to proceed with this ?

Shall I install logrotate using pkg_add command directly on FreeNAS Installation or in a jail. I have no idea on how to install and configure jail as I couldn't find any decent tutorial regarding this.

Please Help.

 

[cyberjock]

Well, considering nothing can nor should be installed on FreeNAS that kind of narrows it down.

If you want help with installing and using jails, see our documentation. ;)

Also, in case you didn't know, the old pkg system was EOL..... TODAY! 9/1/2014. So that's not an option either. ;)

 

[Varun Chandak]

okay...! I'll try to implement a jail and update if logrotate is working properly or not. :)

 

[Dennis K.]

Logrotation should be working. On FreeBSD this is being done by "newsyslog". Also, "/etc/newsyslog.conf" seems to be configured appropriately.

Edit: you can also run "newsyslog -v" manually to see whats going on.

 

[Varun Chandak]

Logrotation should be working. On FreeBSD this is being done by "newsyslog". Also, "/etc/newsyslog.conf" seems to be configured appropriately.

Edit: you can also run "newsyslog -v" manually to see whats going on.

Here's my output:

Code:

[root@freenas] ~# newsyslog -v
Processing /etc/newsyslog.conf
/var/log/all.log <2J>: does not exist, skipped.
/var/log/amd.log <2J>: does not exist, skipped.
/var/log/auth.log <7J>: size (Kb): 5 [100] --> skipping
/var/log/console.log <5J>: does not exist, skipped.
/var/log/cron <3J>: size (Kb): 5 [100] --> skipping
/var/log/daily.log <7J>: does not exist, skipped.
/var/log/debug.log <2J>: does not exist, skipped.
/var/log/kerberos.log <7J>: does not exist, skipped.
/var/log/lpd-errs <7J>: size (Kb): 1 [100] --> skipping
/var/log/maillog <7J>: --> will trim at Tue Sep  2 00:00:00 2014
/var/log/messages <5J>: size (Kb): 61 [100] --> skipping
/var/log/monthly.log <12J>: does not exist, skipped.
/var/log/pflog <3J>: does not exist, skipped.
/var/log/ppp.log <3J>: size (Kb): 1 [100] --> skipping
/var/log/security <10J>: size (Kb): 1 [100] --> skipping
/var/log/sendmail.st <2>: does not exist, skipped.
/var/log/weekly.log <5J>: does not exist, skipped.
/var/log/wtmp <3>: --> will trim at Wed Oct  1 05:00:00 2014
/var/log/xferlog <2J>: size (Kb): 1 [100] --> skipping
/var/log/nginx-access.log <1J>: size (Kb): 69 [100] --> skipping
/var/log/nginx-error.log <1J>: size (Kb): 5 [100] --> skipping
/var/log/ups.log <2J>: size (Kb): 5 [100] --> skipping

my messages log doesn't rotate as it hasn't reached 100 Kb threshold, i guess.

How to rotate logs on per day basis ?

 

[Dennis K.]

my messages log doesn't rotate as it hasn't reached 100 Kb threshold, i guess.

Yep.

How to rotate logs on per day basis ?

newsyslog is already being called once per hour by cron:

Code:

grep -C1 newsyslog /etc/crontab
# Rotate log files every hour, if necessary.
0   *   *   *   *   root   newsyslog
#

 

[Varun Chandak]

Yep.

newsyslog is already being called once per hour by cron:

Code:

grep -C1 newsyslog /etc/crontab
# Rotate log files every hour, if necessary.
0   *   *   *   *   root   newsyslog
#

and what about the messages log to get rotated each day ???

 

[Varun Chandak]

okay, this is the output of my newsyslog.conf file:

Code:

/var/log/all.log                        600  2     *    @T00  J
/var/log/amd.log                        644  2     100  *     J
/var/log/auth.log                       600  7     100  *     JC
/var/log/console.log                    600  5     100  *     J
/var/log/cron                           600  3     100  *     JC
/var/log/daily.log                      640  7     *    @T00  JN
/var/log/debug.log                      600  2     100  *     J
/var/log/kerberos.log                   600  7     100  *     J
/var/log/lpd-errs                       644  7     100  *     JC
/var/log/maillog                        640  7     *    @T00  JC
/var/log/messages                       644  q5    100  *     JC
/var/log/monthly.log                    640  12    *    $M1D0 JN
/var/log/pflog                          600  3     100  *     JB    /var/run/pflogd.pid
/var/log/ppp.log        root:network    640  3     100  *     JC
/var/log/security                       600  10    100  *     JC
/var/log/sendmail.st                    640  2     *    168   B
/var/log/weekly.log                     640  5     1    $W6D0 JN

I think I should change the messages log parameter to maillog one and count = 7 to 30 for 30 days. Am I right ?

 

[Dennis K.]

I think I should change the messages log parameter to maillog one and count = 7 to 30 for 30 days. Am I right ?

This is possible, but not recommended. FreeNAS should only be administered through the webinterface. Upgrading to a new version of FreeNAS would result in losing your custom configuration.