[FROG] Log rotation - newsyslog

[Donald Sharp]

Rudy

Send a SIGUSR1 to each individual daemon  to have the log files
auto-rotated from FRR's perspective.

donald

On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 7:10 PM Rudy Rucker <rudy at monkeybrains.net> wrote:
>
>
> #crontab, ugly hack to reset zebra log file handle (add line to
> newsyslog.conf)
>
> @daily /usr/local/bin/vtysh -d zebra -c 'conf term' -c "`grep ^log
> /usr/local/etc/frr/zebra.conf`"
>
>
>
> On 5/5/20 2:41 PM, Rudy Rucker wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I zebra.log gets big.  I set up  rotation:
> >
> > #grep zeb /etc/newsyslog.conf
> > /var/log/frr/zebra.log     frr:network  644  5     5000 * N
> >
> > but zebra keeps keeps the file handle open and continues to write to
> > the rotated log - zebra.0
> >
> > [1] is there a signal I can send to zebra (and other daemons) without
> > stopping routing?
> > [2] feature request: have daemons check if inode file name has changed
> > and automatically close/open handle on change.
> >
> >
> > PS: zebra.0 is full of mostly this crud:
> >
> > 2020/05/05 14:38:41 ZEBRA: [EC 100663303] kernel_rtm:
> > 2600:1419:e::/48: rtm_write() unexpectedly returned -4 for command
> > RTM_DELETE
> > 2020/05/05 14:38:41 ZEBRA: [EC 100663303] kernel_rtm: 2804:2e40::/32:
> > rtm_write() unexpectedly returned -4 for command RTM_DELETE
> > 2020/05/05 14:38:41 ZEBRA: [EC 100663303] kernel_rtm: 2804:1768::/33:
> > rtm_write() unexpectedly returned -4 for command RTM_DELETE
> > 2020/05/05 14:38:43 ZEBRA: [EC 100663303] kernel_rtm:
> > 2a0b:21c0:4000::/36: rtm_write() unexpectedly returned -4 for command
> > RTM_DELETE
> > 2020/05/05 14:38:47 ZEBRA: [EC 100663303] kernel_rtm:
> > 2a0b:21c0:4000::/36: rtm_write() unexpectedly returned -4 for command
> > RTM_DELETE
> >
> > running 7.2.1.  I couldn't figure out log filter to get rid of
> > RTM_DELETEs.  Advice?
> >
> > # zebra.conf:
> > log file /var/log/frr/zebra.log errors
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Rudy
> >
> >
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