How do I...Manage log files?

How do I change the location of /var/log/dekiwiki/deki-api.log?

To change the location of the deki-api.log edit:

/etc/dekiwiki/mindtouch.host.conf

and change the following variables:

# directory to store dekiwiki log files
LOGDIR="/var/log/dekiwiki"

# location of the dekiwiki API log file 
LOGFILE="$LOGDIR/deki-api.log"

Make sure the dekiwiki user (www-data or dekiwiki depending on the type of your install) has write access:

Deki VM

chown www-data /var/log/dekiwiki

Deki RPM/.deb package:

chown dekiwiki /var/log/dekiwiki

Finally, restart dekihost for the changes to take affect:

/etc/init.d/dekihost restart

How do I rotate my dekiwiki log using logrotate?

In a text editor, create the following file:  /etc/logrotate.d/dekiwki

# rotate the dekiwiki api log daily
/var/log/dekiwiki/deki-api.log {
        daily
        rotate 7
        missingok
        copytruncate
        compress
}

To test the log rotation you can do:

logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.d/dekiwiki