Netscape Certificate Management System 6.1, Administrator'S Manual

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Logs
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type. Select
transaction
to create a listener that records audit logs. For error
and system logs, select
system
.
enabled. Select to enable; deselect to disable. Only enabled logs actually record
events.
level. From the drop-down list, select a log level. The choices are
Debug
,
Information
,
Warning
,
Failure
,
Misconfiguration
,
Catastrophe
, and
Security
. The default selection is
Failure
. For more information, see “Log
Levels (Message Categories)” on page 267.
fileName. Type the full path, including the filename, to the file to write
messages. (Make sure that the server has read/write permission to the file.)
bufferSize. Type the buffer size in kilobytes (KB) for the log. The default size is
512 KB. For more information, see “Buffered Versus Unbuffered Logging” on
page 268. Once the buffer reaches this size, the contents of the buffer are
flushed out and copied to the log file.
flushInterval. Type the interval, in seconds, to flush the buffer to the file. The
default interval is 5 seconds. The
flushInterval
is the amount of time before
the contents of the buffer are flushed out and added to the log file.
maxFileSize. Type the file size in kilobytes (KB) for the error log. The default
size is 100 KB. The
maxFileSize
determines how large a log file can become
before it is rotated. Once it reaches this size, the file is copied to a rotated file,
and the log file is started anew. For more information, see “Log File Rotation”
on page 269.
rolloverInterval.
From the drop-down list, select the frequency at which the
server should rotate the active error log file. The available choices are Hourly,
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, and Yearly. The default selection is Monthly. For
more information, see “Log File Rotation” on page 269.
expirationTime. Type, in seconds, the age limit for deleting the rotated log
files. The default value is 0 seconds, which indicates that the rotated log files
should not be deleted. If you provide a value, the rotated log will be deleted
from your system after that time has elapsed. This is no longer supported.
Logs will not be deleted, you cannot set a time for the automatic deletion of
logs.
The signed audit log has these additional settings: