[chef] Re: Why is chef-server logrotate configuration included for Red Hat but not for Debian?

[Steven De Coeyer < >]

> chef-server just logs to syslog I think, what you do with syslog is up to 
> you :-)


That’s not entirely true, with nginx and postgres and whatnot bundled with 
the chef server, it will also log to places like /var/log/chef-server/erchef 
or /var/log/chef-server/nginx. Our /var/log/chef-server/nginx/acces.log was 
taking up several gigabytes before manually setting a logrotate config.

Kr,
S


On 05 Feb 2014, at 00:47, Noah Kantrowitz 
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> chef-server just logs to syslog I think, what you do with syslog is up to 
> you :-)
> 
> --Noah
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> On Feb 4, 2014, at 3:45 PM, Phil Mocek 
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>  wrote:
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>> Noah Kantrowitz wrote:
>>> I don't think [the omnibus-chef-server project, from chef-server
>>> packages are built nowadays] includes log rotation stuff beyond
>>> the OS defaults at all
>> 
>> I don't see any logrotate configuration [there][1], either.  That's
>> unfortunate.  Various Web searches didn't turn up any discussion of this
>> for me.
>> 
>> 
>> References:
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>> [1]: <https://github.com/opscode/omnibus-chef-server>
>> 
>> -- 
>> Phil Mocek
>> http://mocek.org
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