Presently, logs from deleted domains remain forever. Particular
motivation
comes from the case when libguestfs has repeatedly created transient VMs,
which in turn created plenty of logs. This takes up space and lots of files
troubles filesystem navigation.
More motivation in [1]. Patch solving same problem in [2].
Changes in v2: substantial rework according to Martin Kletzander's comments
v1:
https://www.mail-archive.com/libvir-list@redhat.com/msg233754.html
[1]:
https://listman.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2022-February/228149.html
[2]:
https://listman.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2022-February/msg00865.html
CC: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan(a)redhat.com>
Oleg Vasilev (5):
logging: refactor to store config inside log handler
logging: move virLogHandler to header
logging: add configuration for future log cleaner
logging: add log cleanup for obsolete domains
logging: use the log cleaner
po/POTFILES | 1 +
src/logging/log_cleaner.c | 276 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
src/logging/log_cleaner.h | 29 ++++
src/logging/log_daemon.c | 6 +-
src/logging/log_daemon_config.c | 9 +
src/logging/log_daemon_config.h | 3 +
src/logging/log_handler.c | 64 +++----
src/logging/log_handler.h | 50 ++++--
src/logging/meson.build | 1 +
src/logging/test_virtlogd.aug.in | 2 +
src/logging/virtlogd.aug | 2 +
src/logging/virtlogd.conf | 14 ++
12 files changed, 399 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 src/logging/log_cleaner.c
create mode 100644 src/logging/log_cleaner.h