Bug 1013897 - logconv.pl uses /var/tmp for BDB temp files
Summary: logconv.pl uses /var/tmp for BDB temp files
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: 389-ds-base
Version: 7.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Rich Megginson
QA Contact: Sankar Ramalingam
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Depends On: 1013163
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-10-01 02:20 UTC by Nathan Kinder
Modified: 2020-09-13 20:44 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 389-ds-base-1.3.1.6-5.el7
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Cause: Using the -D argument to logconv.pl is supposed to use the given directory to create the temporary files. logconv.pl was writing a large amount of data in files in /var/tmp instead of the argument given to -D. Consequence: Could fill /var/tmp. Fix: The Berkeley DB tied perl arrays were causing this behavior. The fix is to get rid of arrays as much as possible, and get rid of all tied arrays. Result: /var/tmp is not in danger of filling up, the directory specified with -D is used, performance is much faster, disk usage is much less.
Clone Of: 1013163
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Last Closed: 2014-06-13 11:07:09 UTC
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Description Nathan Kinder 2013-10-01 02:20:43 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1013163 +++

This bug is created as a clone of upstream ticket:
https://fedorahosted.org/389/ticket/47501

Not sure why, but using logconv.pl -V with DB_File creates temporary DB files in /var/tmp called BDBxxxxx.  These can grow to be very, very large.  They need to go in the -D $dataLocation directory.
Comment 2 srkrishn@redhat.com 2014-02-05 12:00:28 UTC 
hi,
i verified the logconv.pl -D option and the script creates the temp files in the directory following -D option and not in the /var/tmp directory.
the access log file is a customer log file.

the command was as follows
logconv.pl -D /RHEL7/data/DS/6.0/logfile/en/stat /RHEL7/data/DS/6.0/logfile/en/access.20120131-000045

this was tested on the latest build.
Comment 3 Sankar Ramalingam 2014-02-13 11:51:28 UTC 
Test cases automated in ./logfile/logconv.sh
Comment 4 Sankar Ramalingam 2014-02-14 15:54:22 UTC 
Marking the bug as Verified as per comment #2
Comment 5 Ludek Smid 2014-06-13 11:07:09 UTC 
This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

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