Logrotate for FreeRadius 3.0.8

Simon Flood S.M.Flood at uis.cam.ac.uk
Tue Jun 23 11:16:14 CEST 2015


On 22/06/2015 19:51, Sunil Kulkarni -X (sunikulk - PERSISTENT SYSTEMS 
INC at Cisco) wrote:

> I am using FreeRadius 3.0.8. To setup the log rollover, I did the following steps.

Which flavour and version of Linux are you using?

> 1.       Copy the attached radius file into /etc/logrotate.d/radius
>
> 2.       Attached radius file contains information about the log. I am expected logrotate will create a log file on daily basis, because global setting in radiusd file is daily.
>
> But log file is not created on daily basic.

Which log file? radius.log?

> When I have executed radiusd forcefully using logrotate -v -f /etc/logrotate.d/radiusd command. It is created compressed file and create a new log for logging.
>
> Am I missing anything in configuration?

Ignoring any log rotation efforts, does your radius.log file get written 
to /usr/local/var/log/radius/? That's where logrotate is looking to 
process it.

HTH,
Simon
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Simon Flood, Senior Systems Specialist,
University Information Services, University of Cambridge


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