(resolved) Don't delete Log files, please!

General Discussion
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Hi,
I’m new (3 months) user of DietPi… I love it.

I’ve read https://dietpi.com/forum/t/dietpi-survey-information/32/1 tread

I have enabled the Full Log System (syslogd + logrotate).
I see the log files in /var/log in the disk (correct):

[…]
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root adm 153804 Nov 12 18:29 auth.log
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root adm 0 Nov 10 11:21 auth.log.1
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root adm 0 Nov 10 11:21 auth.log.2.gz
[…]

But when I reboot the DietPi deletes the using recent log and logrotate create example.log.1 0 Kb … I think this is not useful in Full Log System.
How can I change this option to not delete log files on reboot?

Thanks!

2

The only time DietPi will automatically delete log file contents is with the hourly cron job. This will only run if you have selected a DietPi-Ramlog mode 1/2. I’ll need to see some settings.

Whats the value of:

cat /DietPi/dietpi/.installed | grep 'INDEX_LOGGING_CURRENT ' | awk '{print $2}'

and

df -h
3 
cat /DietPi/dietpi/.installed | grep 'INDEX_LOGGING_CURRENT ' | awk '{print $2}'

-3

df -h

/dev/root 59G 1.1G 58G 2% /
devtmpfs 483M 0 483M 0% /dev
tmpfs 487M 0 487M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 487M 6.5M 481M 2% /run
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 487M 0 487M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 10M 960K 9.1M 10% /DietPi
tmpfs 487M 0 487M 0% /tmp
/dev/mmcblk0p1 56M 21M 36M 37% /boot
tmpfs 98M 0 98M 0% /run/user/1000


Grazie!

4

Found the culprit, dietpi-ramlog is clearing log file contents during boot. This will be resolved in v101 update.

https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/issues/112