Description of problem:
A vanilla install of RHEL 6 with RHEV 3.5 will eventually consume all available space in /var/logs because the httpd logs are not compressed or removed.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL 6.7 with RHEV 3.5.X
How reproducible:
Install RHEL, and install RHEV. Allow it to run for X number of days/weeks/months and /var/log will be 100%.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install RHEL
2. Install RHEV
3. Wait
Actual results:
# cat /etc/logrotate.d/httpd
/var/log/httpd/*log {
missingok
notifempty
sharedscripts
postrotate
/bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/httpd/httpd.pid 2>/dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
endscript
}
Expected results:
# cat /etc/logrotate.d/httpd
/var/log/httpd/*log {
missingok
notifempty
sharedscripts
compress
rotate 5
postrotate
/bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/httpd/httpd.pid 2>/dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
endscript
}
Additional info:
Rotate 5 worked for me, but it probably doesn't even need to be that much. Default configs only keep the ovirt-engine logs for 20 days and http is set by default to rotate weekly.
If there is some concern that we would be overwritting customer configurations you could make this change only when 'Set application as default page' is set as True during engine-setup.
Comment 2Yedidyah Bar David
2016-06-02 10:09:12 UTC
(In reply to Yaniv Dary from comment #1)
> Isn't this a httpd bug? not a RHEV bug?
If at all, it's an httpd bug.
The httpd-specific file [1] has neither 'compress' nor 'nocompress'.
The system-wide file [2] has:
# uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
#compress
One might claim it should be enabled by default, which then makes it a logrotate bug.
[1] /etc/logrotate.d/httpd
[2] /etc/logrotate.conf
What's your /etc/logrotate.conf?
[root@virt-el7 ~]# grep ^rotate /etc/logrotate.conf
rotate 4
[root@virt-el7 ~]# rpm -V logrotate
[root@virt-el7 ~]# rpm -q logrotate
logrotate-3.8.6-7.el7_2.x86_64
httpd does not override the global default of "rotate 4", so it applies to httpd logs.
Description of problem: A vanilla install of RHEL 6 with RHEV 3.5 will eventually consume all available space in /var/logs because the httpd logs are not compressed or removed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RHEL 6.7 with RHEV 3.5.X How reproducible: Install RHEL, and install RHEV. Allow it to run for X number of days/weeks/months and /var/log will be 100%. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install RHEL 2. Install RHEV 3. Wait Actual results: # cat /etc/logrotate.d/httpd /var/log/httpd/*log { missingok notifempty sharedscripts postrotate /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/httpd/httpd.pid 2>/dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true endscript } Expected results: # cat /etc/logrotate.d/httpd /var/log/httpd/*log { missingok notifempty sharedscripts compress rotate 5 postrotate /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/httpd/httpd.pid 2>/dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true endscript } Additional info: Rotate 5 worked for me, but it probably doesn't even need to be that much. Default configs only keep the ovirt-engine logs for 20 days and http is set by default to rotate weekly. If there is some concern that we would be overwritting customer configurations you could make this change only when 'Set application as default page' is set as True during engine-setup.