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Log rotate is important to keep the SD cards on Raspberry pi from corruption, disable any logging when possible (after debugging)
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| Logfile RoATING file operations using UNIX logrotate utility. | |
| ============================================= | |
| + Rotate the log file when file size reaches a specific size | |
| + Continue to write the log information to the newly created file after rotating the old log file | |
| + Compress the rotated log files | |
| + Specify compression option for the rotated log files | |
| + Rotate the old log files with the date in the filename | |
| + Execute custom shell scripts immediately after log rotation | |
| + Remove older rotated log files | |
| Logrotate Configuration files | |
| ============================================= | |
| Following are the key files that you should be aware of for logrotate to work properly. | |
| + /usr/sbin/logrotate – The logrotate command itself. | |
| + /etc/cron.daily/logrotate – This shell script executes the logrotate command everyday. | |
| + /etc/logrotate.conf – Log rotation configuration for all the log files are specified in this file. | |
| PIHOLE RECOMMENDED | |
| ============================== | |
| /var/log/pihole.log { | |
| # su # | |
| daily | |
| copytruncate | |
| rotate 5 | |
| compress | |
| delaycompress | |
| notifempty | |
| nomail | |
| } |
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