by larwood » Wed Aug 17, 2016 5:43 am. Found inside – Page 342Somebody finds out what is wrong and proposes a fix. ... I personally prefer to integrate PostgreSQL with rsyslog and logrotate for log management on Linux ... Share ... To resolve, I edited the /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog file and put the following: This is the rsyslog config which calls said script: /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog apt-file reports that said file belogs to the rsyslog package: # apt-file search /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog rsyslog: /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog Now, before going deeper, I assume that the issue is one of the two: Typo in a armbian-maintaned rsyslog package # cd /var/log/testlog # echo message1 | tee -a test1.log test2.log # cat ../test_syslog.log Jul 29 17: 05: 04 localhost test 1 message 1 Jul 29 17: 05: 04 localhost test 2 message 1. logrotate create group not working. rsyslog not transmitting anything or logging to disk. XML Word Printable JSON. Found insideOne interesting entry says that packages drop log rotation information into ... Here is a more complex example, for rsyslog, the system logging program. Issue: You are not seeing forwarded Syslog messages Probable causes No logs found. So when we read from rsyslog.conf that /var/log/mail.info receives messages from the 'mail' facility with a security level of "info or higher" what we mean is that the mail.info log also collects entries destined for: mail.notice, mail.warn, mail.err, mail.crit, mail.alert and mail.emerg (so higher in severity), but not mail.debug which is less severe than 'info'. In an ideal configuration the errors would be logged to a separate file than non-errors. It provides an easy and effective way of centralizing logs from client nodes to a single central server. Found inside – Page 174Use the -c option to find all config files: # rpm -qc rsyslog /etc/logrotate.d/syslog /etc/rsyslog.conf /etc/sysconfig/rsyslog Aside from the -c option, ... Download. Pro tip: make sure you add the log file in which you log authentications to CSF&LFD to scan for failed logins. Found inside – Page 857This knowledge base may then provide solutions to the complex and unseen problems. Data analysis tools can be used to get inference from the recorded data. #cd /etc/logrotate.d [root@server logrotate.d]# ls. Save and close the configuration file. Unfortunately it wanted more work for me to make it run. The second important concept to note is that this version of rsyslogd interacts transparently with the version of syslog found in the standard libraries. Found inside – Page 501... that at service (meaning that everyone not listed there can still use it). ... to a server, work with logrotate, and know about rsyslog and syslog-ng. So I have set up remote logging with rsyslog from multiple hosts and I wanted to rotate those logs based on size. The idea is to disable the monitoring before the rotation and re-enable it just after. You are using an RSyslog mechanism to send your logs to a centralized server, but as soon as the logrotate is executed on the server, no log is sent anymore? vi /etc/rsyslog.conf. write some messages to the files. Also, a folder is created for service-specific snap-in configuration files for tailor-made log rotation … Logging rotation using logrotate and timing. Found inside – Page 619The dateext keyword causes logrotate to use the date as a filename extension. ... This keyword causes logrotate to continue without issuing an error message ... Syslog-ng Configuration. Found inside – Page 135Before you install the tape device driver for use with IBM Spectrum ... Open the /etc/logrotate.d/syslog file on any available editor (see Example 3-2). 3. Found insidesyslog /etc/logrotate.conffiles, 458-459 /etc/rsyslog.conffiles, 456 /etc/syslog.conffiles, 454-457 /etc/systemd/journald.conffiles, 460 journalctl command, ... Logrotate is the system daemon that rotates, compresses, and The device is not sending logs to the correct Sensor. Most modern Linux distributions actually use a new-and-improved daemon called rsyslog.rsyslog is capable of forwarding logs to remote servers. run-parts /etc/cron.daily Result: Able to log rotate successfully (Verify by looking at timestamp of cron log in /var/log/cron) Jun 6 15:42:19 server run-parts(/etc/cron.daily)[144143]: starting logrotate I have been trying to figure out why the minidlna.log file is not getting trimmed during the weekly log rotation. I had tons of log files taking up space and was not being logrotated properly: mail.info, mail.log, zimbra.log, and zimbra-stats.log I modified file /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog and edited this section Found inside – Page 289Example 10-15 shows the changes to the rsyslog.conf file and the location of ... can be adjusted as needed within the /etc/logrotate.d/syslog control file. As you can see logging can take up some space, I recommend to setup logrotate for this remote folder. When the logging rate is very high, it doesn't invoke logrotate.sh script … Thanks for the replies so far. Now I prefer this approach, since it doesn’t need the complex script writing that’s needed for the first log rotation method described above. The logrotate tool is installed by default.This document will show you how to rotate logs for rsyslog. In post-rotate action you should send SIGHUP to rsyslogd process. 1. But MongoDB log rotation seems to work well when using Linux/Unix’s logrotate tool. Now I prefer this approach, since it doesn’t need the complex script writing that’s needed for the first log rotation method described above. All the logs from client servers will be sent to Centralized logging server i.e rsyslog server. In theory, this should work well because at the "postrotate" step here, the new logs have been created by logrotate (through "create" statement) but nginx doesn't use them yet since it didn't receive the USR1 signal, hence rsyslog is still processing the older file. I am trying to get rsyslog to work with the im3195 module but it is not working as of yet. In this article, let us discuss how to perform following log file operations using UNIX logrotate utility. Theoretically the rsyslog daemon should use the use the new filename based on hostname and start a new file after the kill -HUP. syslog-ng (what you referred to as ng-syslog) does not support RFC 3195 format for syslog over TCP. Found inside – Page 249Logrotate is automatically scheduled through the cron service, ... Journald is not meant to replace rsyslog, but it is complementary to rsyslog. By JonatasPrust, October 2, 2018 in Common issues / peer to peer technical support. I noticed it is not listed in the; /etc/logroate.d/rsyslog. Found inside – Page 540The remaining options are all fictitious, at least as working log files for logrotate. 10. D. The logger utility can be used to create a one-time log file ... user.info /var/log/user.log . Steps to reproduce the behavior. This means literally, quoting from the source code: 1024 * 1024 * 1024 , or 1073741824 bytes. node['rsyslog']['working_dir_mode'] - The temporary working directory access mode; node['rsyslog']['server'] - Determined automatically and set to true on the server. forced from command line (7 rotations) empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed. Not sure if reload rsyslog >/dev/null 2>&1 || true is the correct entry, try the following: Code: /var/log/firewall { daily compress rotate 365 create 0644 root root postrotate /etc/init.d/rsyslog reload endscript } I also added an extra option (green one), which might be … It could be worth temporarily disabling them until you get everything working. 0. My man logrotate makes no mention of reload (checked both Fedora 29 and CentOS 7.6). vi /etc/rsyslog.conf. xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx:/srv/log/p10057_syslog/rsyslog$ cat analyze_error_log.log ('log_path_not_exist', '/srv/log/rsyslog/ejoy_errors/error.log.xxxxxxx') Two things are done to add the log analysis script: Based on Samuel's comment , modified /usr/lib/rsyslog/rsyslog-rotate #!/bin/sh Encountered issues with permissions today --- in my case it was SELINUX shutting it down. The rsyslog was pushing to a dedicated mount and was den... There you have the working solution for storing docker containers’ log message at a specific location on disk with rsyslog. Rsyslog. We've included both for clarity. Logrotate interaction Logs written by rsyslog itself. Found inside – Page 417Managing and troubleshooting the three MTAs (Sendmail, Postfix, Exim) can be accomplished using ... The rsyslogd service implements the syslog protocol. Maybe it's old / removed? Found insideClick here to view code image local1.error /var/log/httpd-error.log 5. Tell rsyslogd to reload its configuration, by using systemctl restart rsyslog. 6. sudo apt install rsyslog rsyslog-relp As of 2019, rsyslog is the default logger on current Debian and Ubuntu releases, but rsyslog-relp is not installed by default. #IIB SYSLOG. Rsyslog is an open source program for transferring log messages over an IP network for UNIX and Unix systems. Found inside – Page 159A. The logrotate program consults a configuration file called ... The remaining options are all fictitious, at least as working log files for logrotate. This can be … Manually install this module with Puppet module tool: puppet module install ghoneycutt-rsyslog --version 0.26.0. # yum install rsyslog If file permissions are all good and logrotate is correctly configured, By installing logrotate, a new configuration file is placed in the /etc/ directory to control the general behavior of the utility when it runs. # vi /etc/rsyslog.conf. Found inside – Page 18-23... log /var/log/messages <==開始處理 messages log does not need rotating <==因為時間未到,不需要更動! ....(底下省略)....範例二:強制進行 logrotate 的 ... On a central logging server, first install rsyslog and its relp module (for lossless log sending/receiving):. running postrotate script logrotate_script: line 1: reload: command not found Instead of reload use kill -HUP as follows. Log Aggregator Setup. Usually all we need to do is configure the rsyslog.conf file and restart the service. Found insideFor example, the following command sends a hangup signal: Trying to compress or rotate a log file that rsyslogd has open for writing is not healthy and has ... To verify the status of Rsyslog, log in via SSH and issue the command: If rsyslog is not present for whatever reason, you can install it using the command: Next, you need to modify a few settings in the Rsyslog configuration file. Open the configuration file. Scroll and uncomment the lines shown below to allow reception of logs via UDP protocol Found inside – Page 226The first line entry under the Rules section instructs the rsyslogd daemon ... In RHEL, a script called logrotate in the /etc/cron.daily directory invokes ... configure rsyslog.conf (described later) to collect 2 files with imfile module. Linux, however, uses the Unix-based syslog tool to manage local log files. Can be rotated perfectly well with default scheme: smth.log is renamed to smth.log.1 and new smth.log is created. Actual behavior. Found insideThe easiest way to find the rsyslog log files for your system is to examine the ... server with problems concerning two different apps that run on it. The man pages for rsyslogd state … Linux solves this problem with a concept called logrotate. Share ... To resolve, I edited the /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog file and put the following: Log Aggregator Setup. e.g. Use ‘ -d ’ option in logrotate command to perform dry run of logrotate on the log file, run the following command, As we can see in the output, logrotate will not rotate the log file as size is not more than 40MB. Find and edit the syslog-ng.conf file. My rsyslog logrotate has this instead of the reload line, which has been working nicely for me: /usr/bin/systemctl kill -s HUP rsyslog.service >/dev/null 2>&1 || true Add the work spool directory lines that are used in case network connectivity is lost and change your rsyslog server IP ADDRESS to 192.168.0.15. Without that, the seperate transfer-logging will not work. I would like it in the log rotation. It caused issue with disk space on /var filesystem. It will only work if i run it manually. Does your man mention it? This worked fine for years until recent changes in the CentOS build related to the pid file. Rotate rsyslog logs, using logrotate. Add the work spool directory lines that are used in case network connectivity is lost and change your rsyslog server IP ADDRESS to 192.168.0.15. This might help to prevent that rsyslog gets restarted with a basically wrong configuration and thus rendering rsyslog useless, because it might not work or not work properly. * -/var/log/dovecot.log local5.warning;local5.error;local5.crit -/var/log/dovecot-errors.log. It is used to regularly cycle (or rotate) log files by removing the oldest ones from your system and creating new log files. It is used to regularly cycle (or rotate) log files by removing the oldest ones from your system and creating new log files. Next step, today, do the same step and then restart rsyslog daemon manually: # logrotate -v /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog # service rsyslog restart If all goes well, you should see logs being listed in /var/log/morabanc/cisco.log. Otherwise Rsyslog will wait until new log file reaches offset of previous log file. In order to enforce the Rsyslog daemon installed on a CentOS 7 system to act as a log client and route all of locally generated log messages to a remote Rsyslog server, modify the rsyslog configuration file as follows: First open the main configuration file for editing. node['rsyslog']['server_ip'] - If not defined then search will be used to determine rsyslog server. To do this, first open up the configuration file with the command sudo nano /etc/rsyslog.conf. We can force this to happen immediately to test that it’s working properly: sudo logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf --verbose --force FortiAnalyzer is not an option. This only has effect when used in combination with com-. rename old log files with a date stamp so you know where to look for older logs. I wasn’t a fan of this second method for long time! Note that loggers like syslog, syslog-ng or rsyslog typically don't need to use copytruncate since they have support to reopen the log files, usually by sending them a SIGHUP. see the script /etc/cron.daily/logrotate So when it runs it'll see that the log file is likely > 1000K and rotate it as requested. The config file syntax is specific to syslog-ng but should look familiar to most programmers. At best, it will generate funny looking file names. Fixed bug in which default iptables rsyslog rule did not work with rsyslog version 7.4.7. Found inside – Page 475priority = 3 # error facility = 1 # user code = '<' + str(8 * facility + ... The logrotate tool is used on Linux systems to compress, archive, rotate, ... Logrotate not working on for logs created by rsyslog, I'm running a rhel7 server and I have a rsyslog logrotate config file that doesn't seem to run using cron job. The logrotate program is a log file manager. Found inside – Page 410... cat /etc/logrotate.conf # rotate log files weekly weekly #keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs rotate 4 # create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones ... file. Found inside – Page 324Somebody finds out what is wrong and proposes a fix. ... I personally prefer to integrate PostgreSQL with rsyslog and logrotate for log management on Linux ... Configuring syslog-ng is simple. This is not a default behavior based on the chosen distribution but can be changed at will using directives in the configuration files, as we will see in this article.. systemctl kill -s HUP --k... That means that when a certain threshold has been reached, the old log file is closed and a new log file is opened. Found insideConfiguration of logrotate Awareness of syslog and syslog-ng The following is a partial list of the used files, terms, and utilities: /etc/rsyslog.conf ... Automating MongoDB logRotate using the logrotate utility. In that case, it is obvious that the process restarting rsyslog in the logrotate script is not working well. Thanks for all help I can get. Splunk will simply detect the new files, and resume. Each system has limited resources, and too many logs lead to performance and memory problems. Rotate the log file when file size reaches a specific size Continue to write the log information to … Cannot logrotate hourly by cron. bootlog httpd kadmind libvirtd named piranha samba subscription-manager tomcat wpa_supplicant The centralization of logs is beneficial in two ways. if [ -d /run/systemd/system ]; then Posted 25 February, 2016. Note: We will also be using Splunk Universal Forwarders (UF) in this article. Log rotation will happen daily via logrotate. After logrotate, rsyslog should begin writing to a new file. system-vm rsyslog logs rotation does not work properly. Found inside – Page 430The logrotate facility is designed to prevent these potential problems. ... in this directory, but they are all aggregated into the single file, rsyslog. Found inside – Page 275Using the rsyslog service, you can gather critical information and error ... The logrotate feature backs up log files into compressed archives when the logs ... If log files were not rotated, compressed, and periodically pruned, they could eventually consume all available disk space on a system. To understand why seven syslog files are retained by default, take a look at this section of the /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog file. Use ‘ -d ’ option in logrotate command to perform dry run of logrotate on the log file, run the following command, As we can see in the output, logrotate will not rotate the log file as size is not more than 40MB. Found inside... with the exception of slightly different naming conventions (rsyslog.conf, for example) and additional features available in the log files. Rsyslog is a free and opensource logging utility that exists by default on CentOS 8 and RHEL 8 systems. Today we will see an interesting issue where the logs are collected in /var/adm/messages as per rsyslog.conf.. View the full question and any other answers on Server Fault . On most distributions you’ll find it in the /etc/syslog-ng/ directory. I had this problem because my /var/log was residing on a ramdisk to reduce wear on my SSD and I wanted to move it to a HDD so I had more history th... For example you could set syslog_facility=local5 and set: local5. The next time Logrotate does its daily run, /var/log/syslog will be moved to a date-based filename, compressed, and uploaded. Usually all we need to do is configure the rsyslog.conf file and restart the service. The centralization of logs is beneficial in two ways. How to logrotate 1 MB file? This will configure rsyslog to store the servers logs in a directory named after the remote server’s hostname. start a new log file on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or monthly. sudo yum downgrade curl libcurl. Automating MongoDB logRotate using the logrotate utility. Scroll to the bottom of that file and add the line: *. Type: Bug ... rsyslog reload synthax is bad in the logrotate.d/rsyslog setting resulting in potential FULL on /var/ and critical failures on the VR. Logrotate not working in /var/log Active threads; Mark site read; Logrotate not working in /var/log. If logs were kept forever, they would eventually end up filling the filesystem where /var/log resides. In some cases, the log data does not make it to the correct Sensor (or All-in-One, which includes a local Sensor). Create a file /etc/logrotate.d/iptables with the following contents: /var/log/iptables.log { rotate 7 daily missingok notifempty delaycompress compress postrotate invoke-rc.d rsyslog rotate > /dev/null endscript } The preceding script tells logrotate to rotate the firewall log daily and keep logs from the past seven days. page. Details. Now, restart syslog service with systemctl restart rsyslog. Found inside – Page 322Using the rsyslog service (rsyslogd daemon), you can gather critical information and error conditions into log files about many different services. The logrotate package is typically installed by default on major Linux distros. Option 1: Store each server’s logs in its own directory. Above output confirms that logroate will rotate the log file as size is more than 40MB. Rsyslog is a free and opensource logging utility that exists by default on CentOS 8 and RHEL 8 systems. If it does not work for you. Found inside – Page 112The rsyslog Logging Daemon Linux uses a daemon called syslogd to automatically log events ... /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/rsyslog /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog ... My man logrotate makes no mention of reload (checked both Fedora 29 and CentOS 7.6). compress old log files to save disk space. Found inside – Page 381A. The logrotate program consults a configuration file called ... Option C's rsyslogd is the name of one of several system logging daemons; it maintains the ... I will explain here why this can happen and how to fix it properly. (Almost all Debians come with rsyslog preinstalled.) Even after full daemon restart, because offset is kept in StateFile; If file inum was changed, Rsyslog must remove previous StateFile because it contains inum in StateFile name. Rotation not needed. Note the "rotate 7" specification. My rsyslog logrotate has this instead of the reload line, which has been working nicely for me: /usr/bin/systemctl kill -s HUP rsyslog.service >/dev/null 2>&1 || true Maybe it's old / removed? What you need to do is schedule logrotate to happen more often. Re: Logrotate not working. On a central logging server, first install rsyslog and its relp module (for lossless log sending/receiving):. In summary, logrotate accomplishes the following: Creation of new log files after rotating old ones. Archival of old log files. Purging of older log files that have been rotated to save on space. Log rotation is usually activated when the size of log files grows and exceeds a certain limit. Found inside – Page 400Starting enhanced syslogd : rsyslogd . Stopping enhanced syslogd : rsyslogd . ... Error : Logrotate dir : /etc/logrotate.d not found ! OK . Post. Rsyslog is such a process, so the default logrotate config use the reload method. Using this mode with rsyslog is strongly recommended by rsyslog upstream. copytruncate: the old log file is copiedinto an archive file, and then it is truncated to "delete" old log lines. Conclusion. Logrotate configuration not working as expected. Logrotate. Logrotate not working in /var/log Active threads; Mark site read; Logrotate not working in /var/log. Found inside – Page 3Also, the steps to set to logging locally using rsyslog, logrotate in a Linux distribution and configuring logging to be sent to a remote syslog server for ... Default is nil. You can edit the file with your favorite text editor. The logrotate program is a log file manager. Restart OMI: sudo scxadmin -restart. Found inside – Page 37917.1.4. rsyslog Command Line Configuration Some of rsyslog's functionality ... If you want to, for example, use sysklogd options (which were deprecated in ... Downloading to your local machine is not typically how you would use a Puppet module to manage your infrastructure, but you may want to download the module in order to inspect the code or for testing purposes. * … It may not always be a solution, some applications are pretty limited and need to keep the handle of the log file always open. I have that from their developers. Ow boy, after splitting of my logfile the file kept on growing, and grep’ kept on becoming slower, now I initially thought rsyslog also managed the rotation, but I’m wrong, in fact its logrotate that does the work… The environment: Traefik v1, Docker, Docker-Compose, Nginx, Ubuntu 18.04, rsyslogd, logrotate. 0. Found inside – Page 869Create a ~/playbooks/logrotate.tasks.yml file with the following content: - name: Configure logrotate for rsyslog action: template ... I will have to research winsyslog. The log files size must be controlled because their size always grows over time. I found the problem, somehow su directive got removed from /etc/logrotate.conf , so needed to add: # use the syslog group by default, since this... The binary file can be located at /bin/logrotate. You would also need to send a -HUP signal to the rsyslog proces once logrotate is done. Setup Centralized Rsyslog Server On CentOS 7. I have attempted to update the logrotate file to not use the pid file at all to avoid future issues but this is not working as expected. 0. 1. handle large number of same log using cron or logrotate. You can do so on Ubuntu by creating the following logrotate config file: vim /etc/logrotate.d/remote Contents: /var/log/remote/*/* { rotate 90 daily missingok compress } Troubleshooting steps i took: 1, logrotate -df /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog Result: Able to log rotate successfully. ... when not working with or writing about … //above is not working that need to command if they present # cat /etc/rsyslog.conf. To implement this, first create a backup of the existing /etc/rsyslog.conf, and create a new one as shown below. Logrotate is installed by default on Ubuntu 16.04, and is set up to handle the log rotation needs of all installed packages, including rsyslog, the … Postpone compression of the previous log file to the next rotation cycle. Export. Make sure to use logrotate to split the file since it could be … Found inside... along with the rsyslog system files there are included configuration files for other systems related to the Syslog server, for example: logrotate system ... Hi everyone! Log In. It'll rotate it once only resulting in your large rotated logs of 50MB. incoming messages are directed to the proper log files. prune old archives so that you only keep a certain number of old logs. It provides an easy and effective way of centralizing logs from client nodes to a single central server. Check Pre-installed rsyslog package Step 1: First of all […] In this tutorial we will learn, how to install and configure rsyslog 7.6 version on RHEL 6.5/CentOS 6.5 .The scenario is,install and setup rsyslog Centralized Logging Server in RHEL/CentOS 6.5. But MongoDB log rotation seems to work well when using Linux/Unix’s logrotate tool. #systemctl status rsyslog.service //is running . I only want the logs in /syslog/network.logThe server is running CentOS. On SLES12, rsyslog doesn't invoke logrotation script upon logfile size exceeding the threshold. Found inside – Page 173For example , the Ubuntu configuration specifies that logrotate should ... same time that another utility ( such as rsyslogd ) wants to add to the logfile . Found inside... Installing Docker on Linux logrotate utility, Logging with ELK seccomp, ... Docker Logging with syslogForwarding Logs with rsyslog logrotate utility, ... 1. Found inside – Page 289I personally prefer to integrate PostgreSQL with rsyslog and logrotate for ... method that is allowed by PostgreSQL (CSV or standard error, for example). Our log file /var/log/syslog does not seem to be rotating, even though the logrotate config /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog exists: See, the syslog log file is 600M with no old files or compressed. Found inside – Page 584The last sets of instructions in logrotate.conf take care of the ... This keyword causes logrotate to continue without issuing an error message if the log ... If logs were kept forever, they would eventually end up filling the filesystem where /var/log resides. Found inside – Page 355... WARNING ERROR Console Enabled - NOTICE WARNING ERROR DTMF= Log Rotation There is some log rotation ... 2 And rsyslog, syslog-ng, and what-all-else. However, it should work on all RPM based distributions like RHEL, Fedora, Scientific Linux. If, for some reason, logrotate is not present, you can install it using apt-get or yum command. Found inside – Page 860CentOS rsyslog logrotate File /var/log/messages /var/log/secure ... In this example, we have overridden the global logging options to rotate these files on ... Most probably it's a file ownership problem. rsyslog starts running as root but then drops privileges and runs as user syslog (configuration direct... Syslog plugins receive data using the rsyslog process listening on TCP or UDP port 514, so the easiest way to confirm log receipt is to run a TCPdump from the appropriate Sensor. Rsyslog does not begin writing to a new file. sudo apt install rsyslog rsyslog-relp As of 2019, rsyslog is the default logger on current Debian and Ubuntu releases, but rsyslog-relp is not installed by default. If it is not installed as part of the default OS installation, it can be installed simply by running: yum install logrotate. Found insideConfiguration of logrotate See the “logrotate,” “/etc/logrotate.conf,” and “/etc/logrotate.d/” sections in this chapter. Awareness of rsyslog and syslog-ng ... Managing log files effectively is an essential task for Linux sysadmin. Found inside – Page 9It is best if this receiver is always turned on in order not to miss any messages. This tutorial assumes you are running rsyslog, which comes default with ... Found insideIt does not include every log in /var/log, but it does include the most important ... This is done with a utility called logrotate running as a cron job. The script relies on logrotate. It is found that logrotate is not working. Just don’t forget to go back and lock it down. Note: rsyslog does not reload configuration on SIGHUP, it just re-opens all log files. I had a similar problem and it seems to have been caused by some kind of incompatibility between the logrotate configuration and the new systemd... 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