Zenoss Logfiles are to big

Zenoss keeps log files for each daemon in $ZENHOME/log/

When you are using a lot of datapoints for JMX or SNMP your log files can grow a lot.
Log files are by default handled by logrotate.

Although the default is to logrotate each week, my logs are growing to almost 5 GB/week
This is in my opinion not needed.

A solution could be to logrotate the files based on the file size instead of the file age.

open this file as root: /etc/logrotate.d/zenoss

now change the file so it looks like this:

/opt/zenoss/log/*.log {
    size=50M
    rotate 5
    copytruncate
}

What have I done now?

I have added size in the configuration, so each time the logrotate daemon runs it will rotate the log if it is bigger then 50MB and does this for 5 cycles.

So each log can be a maximum of 5 * 50 =  250MB big

In my case this is eneugh.

One of my arguments is that I have a nightly backup of the whole machine, so if I need an OLD log file I will need to restore it back from my backupmedia.

And on other agrument is that I'm using a DRBD disk which is only 10GB big.

THis means it can quickly be full.