File¶
Log to a file. The name of the section is the filename of the log file.
Example¶
<file /var/log/dhcpkit/dhcpd.log>
rotate daily
keep 7
level info
</file>
Section parameters¶
- level
The log level. Only log messages with a priority of this level or higher are logged to this output. Possible values are:
- “critical”
- Log critical errors that prevent the server from working
- “error”
- Log errors that occur
- “warning”
- Log warning messages that might indicate a problem
- “info”
- Log informational messages
- “debug”
- Log messages that are usually only useful when debugging issues
- “debug-packets”
- Log the sending and receiving of packets
- “debug-handling”
- Log everything about how a request is handled
Default: “warning”
- rotate
Rotate the log file automatically. Valid options are:
- “hourly” or “hour”
- Rotate the log file every hour
- “daily” or “day”
- Rotate the log file every day
- “weekly” or “week”
- Rotate the log file every week
- “size”
- Rotate the log file based on size
Default: do not rotate based
- size
- When rotating based on size a file size must be specified. You can use the suffixed “kb”, “mb” or “gb” to make the value more readable.
- keep
- When rotating log files you must specify how many files to keep.