Housekeeping of Log Files

Standard FreeBSD logfile housekeeping is defined in With a great help of google docs and google analytics we can show relevant data.

Other, application specific logfile maintenance is being defined in "/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/newsyslog.conf"

# logfilename          [owner:group]    mode count size when  flags [/pid_file] [sig_num]
/var/log/php_error.log                  644  3     512  @T00  JC     /var/run/nginx.pid 30

Refer to freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/configtuning-syslog.html

Published: March 21, 2021

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