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

[Serge E. Hallyn]

Quoting sjoerd at sjomar.eu (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 :'(

Because this is lxd, not lxc:

0 ✓ serge at sl ~/go/src/github.com/lxc/lxd $ grep -nr loglevel .
./lxd/container_lxc.go:535:     err = lxcSetConfigItem(cc, "lxc.loglevel", "0")