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Werk #1606: Moved notify.log to var/log/notify.log in OMD environments

Component Notifications
Title Moved notify.log to var/log/notify.log in OMD environments
Date Dec 3, 2014
Level Trivial Change
Class Bug Fix
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
1.2.6b1 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate MT

The log was located in var/check_mk/notify.log but had no log rotation. We moved it to var/log/notify.log now and added a log rotation. The related configuration options have been changed to be enabled by default. We also removed the option to totally disable this logfile because we'd rather have some log information about eventual missing notifications than no information at all.

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