newsyslog log rotation

[poiuz]

Since my samba full_audit vfs is generating a large log file, I looked for a built-in log rotating solution but could not find one, since newsyslog and logrotate are not on the machine.
I am doing the necessary moving, touching and restarting via cron now, but a configuration file for one of the above would be easier to maintain for all generated log files.
So I suggest adding newsyslog or logrotate to NAS4Free.

[poiuz]

By the way, if anybody has compiled a binary file of newsyslog for NAS4Free, please send me a PM or post a message in this thread.

[Fosterimp]

Have you had any luck finding a solution?? I am logging all my firewall activity but the file needs archiving every 24hrs. I started to use the newsyslog.conf until I found out its not installed. Any Ideas?

Don

[poiuz]

No Fosterimp, since my self-made script does all the necessary steps and works fine, I was too lazy to compile my own newsyslog. At least I installed FreeBSD in a virtual machine, but that's it.

[alexey123]

poiuz
If you have full install - you can increase logfile without problem.
open to edit /etc/rc.d/clog and find strings

if [ ! -e "${clog_logdir}/daemon.log" ]; then
clog -i -s 32768 "${clog_logdir}/daemon.log"
fi

Marked as red is size of log. Adjust it as you need, for example to 262144

I check your building. from /etc/rc.d/syslogd you define:

local7.* %/var/log/samba/log.audit
ftp.* %/var/log/ftp.log
daemon.* %/var/log/daemon.log
*.notice;kern.debug;lpr.info;mail.crit;mail.info;news.err;local0.none;local7.none %/var/log/system.log

green line - you define audit log, but red I marked deny local7 logging.. I don't understand, how it work.
If you want help, pls, step by step write what you replace

If you need simple log rotation add to /etc/rc.d/clog

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if [ ! -e "${clog_logdir}/daemon.log" ]; then
	clog -i -s 32768 "${clog_logdir}/log.audit"
fi

You can change size and logname