Hi Marek, To my knowledge, Kea does not support compressing log files. Suggest you turn off Kea's built in log rotation and use logrotate. You can disable Kea's file rotation by setting "maxsize": 0
Thank you, Darren Ankney On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 12:15 PM Marek Hajduczenia <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 <[email protected]> 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, [email protected] >> >> >> On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 at 08:28, Marek Hajduczenia <[email protected]> >> 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@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 >>> >>> -- >>> ISC funds the development of this software with paid support subscriptions. >>> Contact us at https://www.isc.org/contact/ for more information. >>> >>> To unsubscribe visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/kea-users. >>> >>> Kea-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/kea-users > > -- > ISC funds the development of this software with paid support subscriptions. > Contact us at https://www.isc.org/contact/ for more information. > > To unsubscribe visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/kea-users. > > Kea-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/kea-users -- ISC funds the development of this software with paid support subscriptions. 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