It has been considered, not implemented yet http://bugs.cloudstack.org/browse/CS-9669
On 7/12/12 11:45 AM, "David Nalley" <da...@gnsa.us> wrote: >On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Chiradeep Vittal ><chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com> wrote: >> According to >> >>https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=incubator-cloudstack.git;a=tree >>;f >> >>=patches/systemvm/debian/config/etc/cron.daily;h=e28877633af747315ca525d8 >>66 >> 208bc6f8bfae03;hb=HEAD >> >> >> All log files in /var/log/cloud that are older than 7 days will be >> deleted. >> Logrotate has been configured to roll over other system logs (e.g., >> HAProxy) >> > >So just a nitpicking tangent/question. Why do we maintain stateful >data (logs) on VMs that are effectively designed to be >stateless....should our preference become to send those off the VM to >a syslog server (and make that a configuration option?) and not have >any logs on the machine at all, or perhaps just a small subset (last >24 hours incase things go horribly wrong and network or syslog server >dies) > >--David
