Il 03/01/2012 04:14, Nataraj ha scritto: >> >> Ok, the above works now. But while the setting was (by default) commented >> out, the default wasn't /var/log/vsftpd.log but /var/log/xferlog which >> was growing without limits (it was over 6 GB when I first time noticed the >> problem) since logrotate tried to rotate vsftpd.log >> >> -rw------- 1 root root 0 Dec 31 03:07 vsftpd.log >> -rw------- 1 root root 39134459 Dec 31 12:19 vsftpd.log.1 >> -rw------- 1 root root 433305200 Dec 30 22:03 xferlog >> Nataraj replied to this >> Now, after uncommenting the log file setting line in the conf the next issue >> is, that logrotate does rotate the log files (the old one gets .1 postfix >> added to its name and a new file is created), but it still keeps writing to >> the original file (which is renamed now) >> As noted in /etc/logrotate.d/vsftpd.log ftpd does'nt handle SIGHUP properly, so the daemon keeps writing on the original file >> In the ls -l listing above: >> - vsftpd started to write log vsftpd.log around 10pm last night (when I >> uncommented the log setting from the conf and restarted the daemon, until >> that it was logging to xferlog) >> - during the night logrotate has changed the name of the existing log file >> to ...log.1 but now, several hours later, this renamed old file is still >> used for logging, and the new ...log file remains empty! >> >> Is there some simple option in logrotate's conf that could change this >> behaviour? Or how to fix this. There must be many others who already have >> run into this issue. Try skeduling a service stop/start instead the SIGHUP the logrotate daemon does. >> Regards, >> Timo >> > Check out the man page for vsftpd.conf. vsftpd supports 2 log file > formats. The xferlog_file parameter is for the wu-ftpd style log and > the vsftpd_log_file is the native format log file. The description of > xferlog_file is: > > xferlog_file > This option is the name of the file to which we write > the wu- > ftpd style transfer log. The transfer log is only written > if the > option xferlog_enable is set, along with > xferlog_std_format. > Alternatively, it is written if you have set the > option > dual_log_enable. > > > So if you enable the wu-ftpd style logging then it goes to to xferlog_file. > > Nataraj > Regards Lorenzo