Raspberry Pi: inetutils-syslogd

Replace rsyslogd with inetutils-syslogd and remove useless logs

Reduce memory and cpu usage. We just need a simple vanilla syslogd. Also there is no need to log so many files. Just dump them into /var/log/(cron/mail/messages)

remove rsystlog
# apt-get -y remove --purge rsyslog

install syslogd
# apt-get -y install inetutils-syslogd

Create a vanilla syslogd setup

Stop syslogd
# service inetutils-syslogd stop

Remove old logs
# for file in /var/log/*.log /var/log/mail.* /var/log/debug /var/log/syslog; do [ -f "$file" ] && rm -f "$file"; done
# for dir in fsck news; do [ -d "/var/log/$dir" ] && rm -rf "/var/log/$dir"; done

Create syslog.conf
# echo -e "*.*;mail.none;cron.none\t -/var/log/messages\ncron.*\t -/var/log/cron\nmail.*\t -/var/log/mail" > /etc/syslog.conf

Configure logrotate
# mkdir -p /etc/logrotate.d
# echo -e "/var/log/cron\n/var/log/mail\n/var/log/messages {\n\trotate 4\n\tweekly\n\tmissingok\n\tnotifempty\n\tcompress\n\tsharedscripts\n\tpostrotate\n\t/etc/init.d/inetutils-syslogd reload >/dev/null\n\tendscript\n}" > /etc/logrotate.d/inetutils-syslogd

Start syslogd
# service inetutils-syslogd start