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 Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2024 6:04 pm Post subject: how to control size of wayland-session.log with metalog? |
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hi,
I discover the existence of /home/user/.local/share/sddm/wayland-session.log with a size of 1.6G!!
I not have idea how to control( auto rotation) and what proces has creaded it
a metalog user I am, I think this wayland file needs logrotate to be detected but don't know if metalog are capable to rotate that file too
so, logrotate would interferes with the metalog rotate, wouldn't it?
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| Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2024 7:43 am Post subject: |
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| papu wrote: | I discover the existence of /home/user/.local/share/sddm/wayland-session.log with a size of 1.5G!!
I not have idea how to control( auto rotation) and what proces has creaded it
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It's created, in a trivial way, by the sddm script used to start wayland sessions (and there's a similar log for x11 sessions if you use them).
I don't remember the details, but AFAIR it's somewhere in /usr/share/sddm, and it's a bash script that redirects the wayland process's stdout and stderr to append the log file.
When I found the same issue of a humungous and useless log, I tweaked the script to rename the current log as "wayland-session.log.old". That way I had both old and current logs, but no deep history - but as I'd never ever looked at it, that seemed sensible!
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| Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2024 1:33 pm Post subject: |
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yeah!
but I want to logrotate it i don't know how to do , seems metalog not detects that file.
I have wrote inside /etc/logrotate.d/ ( that I assume is controled by metalog) something like that but wayland.session.log is not affected by it
| Code: | /home/user/.local/share/sddm/wayland-session.log {
daily
missingok
notifempty
delaycompress
compress
} |
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| Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2024 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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Finally, I installed syslog-ng with logrotate and seems that file get stucked no more but I had to create a new rule.
| Code: | # cat /etc/logrotate.d/wayland-session
/home/user/.local/share/sddm/*.log {
daily
size 1536k
rotate 2
missingok
notifempty
copytruncate
compress
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and then logrotate -fv /etc/logrotate.conf
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