I’ve checked a couple of servers and the Letsencrypt log directory doesn’t seem to be among the logs available in the cockpit logs section and the folder doesn’t seem to be bound by the log rotate and log keep rules.
It rotates at 1000. As already discussed in the other topic. As to Cockpit, no idea on that one, but I’d guess it has something to do with the fact that certbot creates a new log file each run.
Sorry, where do you see all the other logs in cockpit? Please explain or screenshot as I can’t find a way to select a log in the cockpit log viewer…
Some applications provide logs but AFAICS the log viewer only has messages log.
I have no idea how Logs in Cockpit populates, it doesn’t match up with what I see in /var/logs, yet I can set it to Everything - All and it shows rspamd stuff, dovecot… those aren’t in Messages. wtf?
Anyway, I don’t have time for this right now. I do now realize that Cockpit - Logs is useless to me so going forward I won’t waste anymore time there, I’ll just use shell.
At least the Logs in Applications actually shows the logs for those modules, so there’s that.
All these years I thought Logs were Logs and I’ve been confused as to why I can’t find what I need.
Thanks @mrmarkuz you’ve given me the push I needed to understand what I didn’t understand.