[SOLVED] Max Size Limit for cacti.log?

siouxee · Cacti User Joined: 07 Sep 2005 Posts: 66

I noticed that my cacti.log file stopped growing suddenly about 10 days ago with a size of ~1.1GB. Is there a max size limit or suggested method to keep this log maintained?

As a workaround I renamed the file to cacti.old_log and a new cacti.log file was automatically generated and appears to be updating properly again.

TheWitness · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 3:59 pm Post subject:

Suggest you use logrotate for your problem.

TheWitness

gandalf · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:03 pm Post subject:

I recommend setting up a logrotate
Reinhard

siouxee · Cacti User Joined: 07 Sep 2005 Posts: 66

Any lograte options/suggestions for Win32?

TheWitness · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 7:22 pm Post subject:

Well, you may have to search for something as Windows does not have such primitive and usefull features. It relies more on complex and hard to configure things.

What I would do is create a scheduled task to zip up the log file once a week and create a new one. You could have it keep a few backups.

There may be a utility available for Windows, or Cygwin might also do it. Not too sure.

TheWitness

TheWitness · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 7:22 pm Post subject:

Here is one nice (

) example:

http://www.datori.org/?p=7

TheWitess

siouxee · Cacti User Joined: 07 Sep 2005 Posts: 66

Cool, I'll give it a shot. Thanks!

So is there a theoretical limit on the cacti.log file?

siouxee · Cacti User Joined: 07 Sep 2005 Posts: 66

Seems to be working like a champ! Thanks for the help!