[SOLVED] Extend the rotation of mailbox.log

[Hatrix]

Hello Forum,

I need to change somehow the way log4j does the rotation on at least the mailbox.log file, currently i have some 10 days but I need to have at least 30 days, if possible we want to have 90 days.

How do I change this? I tried to search in the forums and to google but did not really found helpful information on this regard,

thanks

[Hatrix]

I tried to put this in the conf/log4j.properties file:
log4j.appender.LOGFILE.MaxBackupIndex=30

but then I get this message:

zimbra@mailserver:~/conf$ zmprov -v
log4j:WARN No such property [maxBackupIndex] in org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender.


....



best regards
Ray

[Hatrix]

After reading the online documentation to log4j it seems like there is nothing which deletes old logfiles in log4j on rotation, so i dug a little further and i come across the crontab of the zimbra user,

there I found:

# ZIMBRASTART -- DO NOT EDIT ANYTHING BETWEEN THIS LINE AND ZIMBRAEND
#
# Log pruning
#
30 2 * * * find /opt/zimbra/log/ -type f -name \*.log\* -mtime +8 -exec rm {} \; > /dev/null 2>&1
35 2 * * * find /opt/zimbra/log/ -type f -name \*.out.???????????? -mtime +8 -exec rm {} \; > /dev/null 2>&1


So, there it is where my logfiles get deleted, but how to proceed from there? I should not edit anything here, is this autogenerated? is the value +8 editable somewhere? In the LDAP?

If not, do I have to take care to check on every upgrade ???

thanks for any help,

best
Ray

[Hatrix]

Ok, for the time being I changed the crontab to the following:

# ZIMBRASTART -- DO NOT EDIT ANYTHING BETWEEN THIS LINE AND ZIMBRAEND
#
# Log pruning
#
30 2 * * * find /opt/zimbra/log/ -type f -name \*.log\* -and ! -name mailbox.log\* -mtime +8 -exec rm {} \; > /dev/null 2>&1
30 2 * * * find /opt/zimbra/log/ -type f -name mailbox.log\* -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \; > /dev/null 2>&1


means that all logfiles get rotated on their 8 day scheme, but mailbox.log will stay for 30 days ...

I do hope someone can tell me how to do this the proper way thought ...

best
Ray

[phoenix]

[SOLVED] Increase number of logs to keep .... and yes, you will need to change that on every upgrade.

[Hatrix]

Hi,

interesting, i was searching within the last 2 weeks quite a bit in the forum but did not find this message ...

Would have helped me out in the first place ...

best
Ray

[Hatrix]

I'l set this to resolved for now, though wishing someone finds out a better method ...

best
Ray

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by Hatrix

I'l set this to resolved for now, though wishing someone finds out a better method ...

If you would like some option to change the retained period of the log files then I'd suggest you file an RFE in Bugzilla Main Page - Zimbra, that would be the appropriate place for it.

[Hatrix]

Hi,

i took your advice at heart and created a bug/feature request:

Bug 44554 – log4j configurable amount of days to keep logs.

maybe some of the people concerned with this bug should care to vote.

best regards
Ray