Logging Configuration Guide for Gentoo Infrastructure Servers

Code Listing 1.1: /etc/syslog.conf

#  /etc/syslog.conf     Configuration file for syslogd.

#
# First some standard logfiles.  Log by facility.
#

auth,authpriv.*                 /var/log/auth.log
*.*;auth,authpriv.none          -/var/log/syslog
cron.*                         /var/log/cron.log
daemon.*                        -/var/log/daemon.log
local6.*                        /var/log/rsync.log
local4.*                        /var/log/ldap.log
local3.*                        /var/log/xinetd.log
(Make sure that services such as rsyncd, xinetd and others are configured to use the localN log specified)

#
# Logging for the mail system. Split it up so that
# it is easy to write scripts to parse these files.
#
mail.info                       -/var/log/mail.info
mail.warn                       -/var/log/mail.warn
mail.err                        /var/log/mail.err
(This section should be commented out for Gentoo mail servers since qmail and exim provide their own logging facilities.)

Code Listing 2.1: /etc/logrotate.conf

# sample logrotate configuration file

/var/log/apache/*.httpd {

        rotate 30
        daily
        postrotate
                /etc/init.d/apache restart
        endscript
}
(The section above should be ommitted if the server is not running apache)
/var/log/*.log  {
        rotate 14
        daily
        postrotate
                /bin/kill -HUP `pidof syslogd`
        endscript
}

Code Listing 2.2: logrotate.cron script for /etc/cron.daily

#! /bin/sh

/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf