Bug 1088998

Summary: When XZ compression is used /var/log/sa/sa* files kept longer than given HISTORY parameter
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Peter Portante <pportant>
Component: sysstatAssignee: Peter Schiffer <pschiffe>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Branislav Náter <bnater>
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Version: 6.6CC: bnater
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Fixed In Version: sysstat-9.0.4-23.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Cause: sa2 script didn't support xz compression Consequence: old daily data files weren't deleted Fix: add support of xz compression to the sa2 script Result: old daily data are deleted
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: 1097294 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2014-10-14 06:40:53 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Peter Portante 2014-04-17 15:41:06 UTC 
When an admin configures sysstat to compress the /var/log/sa/sa* data files after a certain number of days, which is less than the number of days to keep the files, no files are deleted when the "xz" compression utility is used.

This appears to be due to /usr/lib64/sa/sa2 having a "find" parameter set that does not match xz compressed file names:

find ${DDIR} \( -name 'sar??' -o -name 'sa??' -o -name 'sar??.gz' -o -name 'sa??.gz' -o -name 'sar??.bz2' -o -name 'sa??.bz2' \) \
	-mtime +"${HISTORY}" -exec rm -f {} \;

The fix was already merged upstream in pull request #17: https://github.com/sysstat/sysstat/pull/17
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-14 06:40:53 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2014-1468.html