IPA: How To Configure Directory Server Log Rotation?

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Issue

  • How To Configure Directory Server Access Log Rotation in IPA?
  • After setting parameter nsslapd-accesslog-maxlogsperdir to value 40, access log rotated file count is not increasing.
# ldapmodify -h 127.0.0.1  -D "cn=Directory Manager" -W -x  <<EOF
dn: cn=config
changetype: modify
replace: nsslapd-accesslog-maxlogsperdir
nsslapd-accesslog-maxlogsperdir: 40
EOF


# ls -ltrh /var/log/dirsrv/slapd-EXAMPLE-TEST/access*
-rw-------  1 dirsrv dirsrv 101M Apr 26 09:48 /var/log/dirsrv/slapd-EXAMPLE-TEST/access.20210426-094146
-rw-------  1 dirsrv dirsrv 101M Apr 26 09:53 /var/log/dirsrv/slapd-EXAMPLE-TEST/access.20210426-094815
-rw-------  1 dirsrv dirsrv 101M Apr 26 09:58 /var/log/dirsrv/slapd-EXAMPLE-TEST/access.20210426-095345
-rw-------  1 dirsrv dirsrv 101M Apr 26 10:09 /var/log/dirsrv/slapd-EXAMPLE-TEST/access.20210426-095831
-rw-------. 1 dirsrv dirsrv  519 Apr 26 10:10 /var/log/dirsrv/slapd-EXAMPLE-TEST/access.rotationinfo
-rw-------  1 dirsrv dirsrv  85M Apr 26 10:13 /var/log/dirsrv/slapd-EXAMPLE-TEST/access

Environment

  • IPA 4.x
  • Directory Server
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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