[Samba] log rotation in samba

[Melanie Pfefer]

how to enable log rotation in samba?
max log size in the conf file allows only 1 log file.

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[Mogens Kjaer]

Post by Melanie Pfefer
how to enable log rotation in samba?

You don't. The log rotation is normally done
by other programs.

In some Linuxdistributions this is done by the logrotate program.

Mogens

[Melanie Pfefer]

Could you please share how you used logadm/logrotate
to rotate samba logs?

many thanks for your assistance.

Post by Mogens Kjaer

Post by Melanie Pfefer
how to enable log rotation in samba?

You don't. The log rotation is normally done
by other programs.
In some Linuxdistributions this is done by the
logrotate program.
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[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Post by Melanie Pfefer
Could you please share how you used logadm/logrotate
to rotate samba logs?

Hmm, doesn't Samba rotate the logs by itself? I.e.:

log level = 3
syslog = 0
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 5000

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Post by Tomasz Chmielewski

Post by Melanie Pfefer
Could you please share how you used logadm/logrotate
to rotate samba logs?

log level = 3
syslog = 0
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 5000

AFAIK, no. This only tells samba how much information to
keep in each file and how detailed they are. If you want to have
history, you need to rotate it using something like logrotate.

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Post by Melanie Pfefer
Could you please share how you used logadm/logrotate
to rotate samba logs?

log level = 3
syslog = 0
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 5000

AFAIK, no. This only tells samba how much information to
keep in each file and how detailed they are. If you want to have
history, you need to rotate it using something like logrotate.

Yes and no.
With the above setting, Samba keeps two logs per machine:
/var/log/samba/log.%m and /var/log/samba/log.%m.old. Each of them having
5000 kB.

If you want to use just logrotate for that, you'd have to set "max log
size = 0", so that Samba doesn't rotate the files on its own.

However, to keep some "reasonable history" with "log level = 3", one
would have to reserve gigabytes for each machine... Also, it wouldn't be
that great for performance.

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Post by Tomasz Chmielewski

Post by Melanie Pfefer
Could you please share how you used logadm/logrotate
to rotate samba logs?

log level = 3
syslog = 0
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 5000

AFAIK, no. This only tells samba how much information to
keep in each file and how detailed they are. If you want to have
history, you need to rotate it using something like logrotate.

It keeps one old revision, marked .old or something like that.

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