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| author | osirisinferi <github@flut.demon.nl> | 2021-12-22 00:20:01 +0300 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-12-22 00:20:01 +0300 |
| commit | a391a34631059b0b398f90f8ccac22e7054ad5fe (patch) | |
| tree | ef611c2d069746f0121b54d25f5fcfcf98e60d4c | |
| parent | 1577cd866308f98394278038f6fc95878f3d973e (diff) | |
Add appending behaviour of `max-log-backups = 0` (#9146)
| -rw-r--r-- | certbot/docs/using.rst | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/certbot/docs/using.rst b/certbot/docs/using.rst index c9bbaf324..07406c356 100644 --- a/certbot/docs/using.rst +++ b/certbot/docs/using.rst @@ -1151,7 +1151,8 @@ certbot will begin rotating logs once there are 1000 logs in the log directory. Meaning that once 1000 files are in ``/var/log/letsencrypt`` Certbot will delete the oldest one to make room for new logs. The number of subsequent logs can be changed by passing the desired number to the command line flag -``--max-log-backups``. +``--max-log-backups``. Setting this flag to 0 disables log rotation entirely, +causing certbot to always append to the same log file. .. note:: Some distributions, including Debian and Ubuntu, disable certbot's internal log rotation in favor of a more traditional |