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>Did you ever had the "pleasure" of a server grinding to a halt because the logs filled up all the space? Everyone should be using logrotate, and if they actua
by cthalupa 6y ago
>Did you ever had the "pleasure" of a server grinding to a halt because the logs filled up all the space?
Everyone should be using logrotate, and if they actually read the things, shipping logs to ELK or Splunk or Greylog or whatever.
- elmo2you 6y ago> Everyone should be using logrotate, and if they actually read the things, shipping logs to ELK or Splunk or Greylog or whatever. Certainly they should. That is, if they have that much control over the server and if it's not some legacy system build by some defunct organization or John Doe. I do not disagree with your theory, on the contrary. But then there is reality, where this theory isn't always feasible.
- warrenm 6y ago>Everyone should be using logrotate Doesn't run often enough to counter belligerents dumping 100s of gigs into logs too fast for logrotate to keep up