[chef] Re: Log management for the Chef 11 Omnibus installation

[Joshua Timberman < >]

Ohai,

On Feb 24, 2013, at 8:06 AM, Joseph Bowman 
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 wrote:

> Is there a good guide for setting up logrotate or something similar I can 
> use to rotate logs and ship them to our central logging server? For example 
> the access.log for nginx doesn't appear to be set up to rotate at all. 
> We're an apache shop and have used httplog for years to get apache to write 
> it's files in a dated format so we could move them off without ever having 
> to stop apache. 
> 
> I'm also not familiar with some of the other components of chef to know 
> what and how I should rotate it. For example /var/log/chef-server/chef-solr 
> already has 2MB of logs in it. We're running chef on a VM with a 4GB /var 
> partition. 


Using the omnibus package, the services in Chef 11 Server are managed by 
runit, and they log through svlogd[0].

[0]: http://smarden.org/runit/svlogd.8.html

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