syslog: T6989: remove "file" logging destination

4 files changed, 30 insertions, 54 deletions

diff --git a/data/templates/rsyslog/rsyslog.conf.j2 b/data/templates/rsyslog/rsyslog.conf.j2
index 253a4bee2..67c062ab9 100644
--- a/data/templates/rsyslog/rsyslog.conf.j2
+++ b/data/templates/rsyslog/rsyslog.conf.j2
@@ -24,20 +24,6 @@ $outchannel global,/var/log/messages,262144,/usr/sbin/logrotate {{ logrotate }}
 {{ tmp | join(';') }} :omfile:$global
 {% endif %}
 
-{% if file is vyos_defined %}
-# File based configuration section
-{%     for file_name, file_options in file.items() %}
-{%         set tmp = [] %}
-$outchannel {{ file_name }},/var/log/user/{{ file_name }},{{ file_options.archive.size }},/usr/sbin/logrotate {{ logrotate }}
-{%         if file_options.facility is vyos_defined %}
-{%             for facility, facility_options in file_options.facility.items() %}
-{%                 set _ = tmp.append(facility.replace('all', '*') + '.' + facility_options.level.replace('all', '*')) %}
-{%             endfor %}
-{%         endif %}
-{{ tmp | join(';') }} :omfile:${{ file }}
-{%     endfor %}
-{% endif %}
-
 {% if console.facility is vyos_defined %}
 # Console logging
 {%     set tmp = [] %}
diff --git a/interface-definitions/include/version/system-version.xml.i b/interface-definitions/include/version/system-version.xml.i
index 3ecf124c7..5cdece74a 100644
--- a/interface-definitions/include/version/system-version.xml.i
+++ b/interface-definitions/include/version/system-version.xml.i
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 <!-- include start from include/version/system-version.xml.i -->
-<syntaxVersion component='system' version='28'></syntaxVersion>
+<syntaxVersion component='system' version='29'></syntaxVersion>
 <!-- include end -->
diff --git a/interface-definitions/system_syslog.xml.in b/interface-definitions/system_syslog.xml.in
index 0a9a00572..1d5b3635f 100644
--- a/interface-definitions/system_syslog.xml.in
+++ b/interface-definitions/system_syslog.xml.in
@@ -106,45 +106,6 @@
               </leafNode>
             </children>
           </node>
-          <tagNode name="file">
-            <properties>
-              <help>Logging to a file</help>
-              <constraint>
-                <regex>[a-zA-Z0-9\-_.]{1,255}</regex>
-              </constraint>
-              <constraintErrorMessage>illegal characters in filename or filename longer than 255 characters</constraintErrorMessage>
-            </properties>
-            <children>
-              <node name="archive">
-                <properties>
-                  <help>Log file size and rotation characteristics</help>
-                </properties>
-                <children>
-                  <leafNode name="file">
-                    <properties>
-                      <help>Number of saved files</help>
-                      <constraint>
-                        <regex>[0-9]+</regex>
-                      </constraint>
-                      <constraintErrorMessage>illegal characters in number of files</constraintErrorMessage>
-                    </properties>
-                    <defaultValue>5</defaultValue>
-                  </leafNode>
-                  <leafNode name="size">
-                    <properties>
-                      <help>Size of log files in kbytes</help>
-                      <constraint>
-                        <regex>[0-9]+</regex>
-                      </constraint>
-                      <constraintErrorMessage>illegal characters in size</constraintErrorMessage>
-                    </properties>
-                    <defaultValue>256</defaultValue>
-                  </leafNode>
-                </children>
-              </node>
-              #include <include/syslog-facility.xml.i>
-            </children>
-          </tagNode>
           <node name="console">
             <properties>
               <help>logging to serial console</help>
diff --git a/src/migration-scripts/system/28-to-29 b/src/migration-scripts/system/28-to-29
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e12063fc4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/migration-scripts/system/28-to-29
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+# Copyright 2025 VyOS maintainers and contributors <maintainers@vyos.io>
+#
+# This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+# modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+# License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+# version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+# Lesser General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+# along with this library.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+# T6989:
+#   - remove syslog arbitrary file logging
+#   - remove syslog user console logging
+
+from vyos.configtree import ConfigTree
+
+base = ['system', 'syslog']
+
+def migrate(config: ConfigTree) -> None:
+    if not config.exists(base):
+        return
+
+    if config.exists(base + ['file']):
+        config.delete(base + ['file'])