NoMachine logs are never rotated

[fermulator]

Why? NoMachine needs to hook in to syslog rotation on Linux systems please.

$ ll | grep log
-rw-r–r–    1 nx   root      14940 May 11 13:41 nxd.log
-rw-rw–w-    1 nx   root      17032 May 11 13:41 nxerror.log
-rw-r–r–    1 root root      12096 Dec 14 17:30 nxinstall.log
-rw-rw–w-    1 nx   root 4071696740 May 11 13:42 nxserver.log        <—- 4GB!!!
-rw-r–r–    1 root root      53618 Dec 14 17:28 nxuninstall.log
-rw-r–r–    1 root root      24151 Dec 14 17:32 nxupdate.log

$ uname -a
Linux <HOSTNAME> 4.15.17-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Apr 12 18:28:26 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora release 26 (Twenty Six)

$ rpm -qa | grep nx
remmina-plugins-nx-1.2.0-0.51.20180408.git.6b62986.fc26.x86_64
nx-libs-3.5.0.33-4.fc26.x86_64
inxi-2.3.56-1.fc26.noarch
nxproxy-3.5.0.33-4.fc26.x86_64
$ rpm -qa | grep nomachine
nomachine-6.0.66-2.x86_64

[Britgirl]

This is planned for an upcoming v6.x release:

Giving the possibility to activate log rotation for NoMachine log files
https://www.nomachine.com/FR01L02806

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