[lxc-users] LXD: loglevel defauilts to trace?

[sjoerd at sjomar.eu]

October 17, 2016 12:32 PM, sjoerd at sjomar.eu wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just had a LXD host (LXD version 2.0.4 on Ubuntu server 16.04) ran out of diskspace and found out
> that my LXD logs took almost 8GB.
> 
> When looking at the /var/log/lxd/containernerme/lxd.conf file I see a lxc.loglevel set to 0, which
> means trace according to the manpage, so basically log all you can think of.
> Is there an easy config to set to reduce logging? 
> It doesn't seem to work when I do a "lxc config set containername raw.lxc 'lxc.loglevel = 8'" (for
> only fatal error logging)
> 
> It does show up in the configuration when doing a "lxc config show containername", but when looking
> at the /var/log(lxd/containername/lxd.conf it still shows level 0.
> 
> Since this LXD host is running from a SD-card I would like to set logging to an absolute minimum.
> 
> NB: according to the manpage
> (https://linuxcontainers.org/lxc/manpages/man5/lxc.container.conf.5.html) default logging should be
> level 5 (error), which is already way better than the default of 0.

Nobody? Then I'll stay with truncating the logs on regularly basis I am afraid :'(

Cheers,
Sjoerd