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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Thank you Peter and David.<br><br>I will give it a shot.<br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 10:07:37 -0500<br>Subject: Re: [Oisf-users] Log Rotation with Suricata<br>From: davidvasil@gmail.com<br>To: coolyasha@hotmail.com<br>CC: oisf-users@lists.openinfosecfoundation.org<br><br><div dir="ltr">Yasha,<div> I've used the following with success. The 'copytruncate' directive is what you want to allow suricata to continue writing to the same file handle while rotating off old stats.</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>"/var/log/suricata/stats.log" {</div><div> daily</div><div> compress</div><div> copytruncate</div><div> rotate 7</div><div> missingok</div><div>}</div></div><div><br></div><div>-david vasil</div>
<div><br></div></div><div class="ecxgmail_extra"><br><br><div class="ecxgmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Yasha Zislin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:coolyasha@hotmail.com" target="_blank">coolyasha@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><div dir="ltr">I am trying to logrotate stats.log file<br><br>My logrotate config for that file is <br>/var/log/suricata/stats.log {<br> missingok<br> notifempty<br> size 20k<br> weekly<br>
create 0640 suricata suricata<br>}<br><br>I am not an expert on logrotate but this was working for other system files like syslog.<br><br>So stats.log rotated this past friday but Suricata is still writting to old file.<br>
-rw-r----- 1 suricata suricata 0 Jul 6 03:12 stats.log<br>-rw-r----- 1 root root 1019158188 Jul 7 11:01 stats.log-20140706<br><br>Does anybody know how to get logrotation configured with Suricata for stats.log file?<br>
<br>Thanks.<br> </div></div>
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