Mailbox/Zimbrastats Rotate

[etoczek]

It looks like there is a nightly process that goes through and rotates the logs in /opt/zimbra/log, however once it's done the process does not compress the files. To try to keep file space down, and retain zimbrastats.csv for historical use I want to compress the files after they have been rotated, however I'm not sure what script is actually doing this rotation.

It's not listed in logrotate, and I can't find any script that is doing it in zimbra's crontab. Does anybody know what's doing this rotation? Am I just not looking in the right spot?

Thanks.

[bburtin]

Unfortunately there's not a uniform way to rotate log files. The server code uses Log4j for configuring, writing and rotating log files. To change the configuration for zimbrastats.csv, edit the following section in /opt/zimbra/conf/log4j.properties:

# Appender STATS writes to the file "zimbrastats.csv".
log4j.appender.STATS=org.apache.log4j.ZimbraStatsAppender
log4j.appender.STATS.File=/opt/zimbra/log/zimbrastats.csv
log4j.appender.STATS.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd
log4j.appender.STATS.Append=true
log4j.appender.STATS.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.STATS.layout.ConversionPattern=%m%n

ZimbraStatsAppender is a hack of Log4j's DailyRollingFileApender class. The Log4j Javadoc has the details about configuration options.