best practice for unbound logs with logrotate

ѽ҉ᶬḳ℠ vtol at gmx.net
Mon Jul 29 19:35:27 UTC 2019


On 29/07/2019 18:30, Jaap Akkerhuis wrote:
>   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

Neat. Thank you for the pointer

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