best practice for unbound logs with logrotate
Jaap Akkerhuis
jaap at NLnetLabs.nl
Mon Jul 29 18:30:53 UTC 2019
ѽ҉ᶬḳ℠ via Unbound-users writes:
> Have tried various settings in logroate but none seems to able to tame
> the unbound logs.
>
> Anyone with a similar usecase who would not mind sharing some good
> practice for unbound logs with logrotate?
I use syslog for logging, but if you log to file and use logrotate,
you need to tell unbound to release the logfile. Thefore I suggest
to do something like:
/var/log/unbound.log {
rotate 5
weekly
postrotate
unbound-control log_reopen
endscript
}
See also man unbound-control.
jaap
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