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Mmh, I thought the docs had been updated to reflect that… IIRC the rationale for not including what you propose is that we don't want to impose any rotation scheme on anyone, everyone potentially having different requirements. The other point was that you should already have some kind of logrotate installed and should configure it for that.

I think you could also add a new logger configuration in the config/additional_environment.rb instead of the other file, thus you'd have it local only and wouldn't be affected by updates.

Anyway, could you update the installation guides to make a note where the logs are and that they might grow rapidly depending on usage and should be taken into a logrotate or whatever?

T. Hauptman wrote:

Personally I think that defaulting a configuration that is sane, even if it's nerf, is better in the long run. Power admins can always tweak it to match their optimized system. The rest of us want to install as quickly as possible with the least amount of reading and just have it work...

I believe that's been discussed already, I too was in favor of a default rotation, but the arguments against it won.

Regardless I've added a note to the installation page. I don't have time to do a patch for additional_environment.rb.example... Would you be able to add that line?

Very good, thanks a lot. I'll see if the file is one we modify in some way or if it's shipped vanilla from rails, if the later's the case I think we'll keep it from upstream.

Felix,

If you can get me a working config for additional_configuration.rb, I can document it in there as an example too.

For anyone that needs it, this is the log rotation setup I run in production:

/home/websites/projects.littlestreamsoftware.com/shared/log/*.log {

  daily

  missingok

  compress

  delaycompress

  sharedscripts

  postrotate
    touch /home/websites/projects.littlestreamsoftware.com/current/tmp/restart.txt
  endscript
}

The OP had already edited the wiki-page RedmineInstall, my config in additional_environment.rb is:

# Use the log-rotation from logger
config.logger = Logger.new(config.log_path, 7, 1048576)
config.logger.level = Logger::INFO

Felix Schäfer wrote:

The OP had already edited the wiki-page RedmineInstall, my config in additional_environment.rb is:

1 # Use the log-rotation from logger
2 config.logger = Logger.new(config.log_path, 7, 1048576)
3 config.logger.level = Logger::INFO

The wiki-page RedmineInstall has to be updated with the 'config.logger.level' line as well. This is important, because otherwise the log level defaults back to :DEBUG.

See http://www.redmine.org/boards/2/topics/11836.