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Bug 2021533 - rsyslog stops sending logs after log rotation even with copytroncate
Summary: rsyslog stops sending logs after log rotation even with copytroncate
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: rsyslog
Version: 8.4
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
high
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Attila Lakatos
QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-11-09 14:42 UTC by Welterlen Benoit
Modified: 2022-07-04 12:12 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2022-07-04 12:12:25 UTC
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Red Hat Bugzilla 1763757 1 high CLOSED rsyslog doesn't read lines from imfile after rotation 2023-09-07 20:57:32 UTC
Red Hat Issue Tracker RHELPLAN-102175 0 None None None 2021-11-09 14:47:00 UTC
Red Hat Issue Tracker SECENGSP-4184 0 None None None 2021-11-09 14:47:03 UTC

Description Welterlen Benoit 2021-11-09 14:42:07 UTC
Description of problem:
If we follow the openstack doc to configure the centralized log: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_openstack_platform/16.1/html-single/logging_monitoring_and_troubleshooting_guide/index#installing-and-configuring-the-logs-service_osp , the configuration is a container in charge to logrotate files with a cron job and another container is in charge to send files to elasticsearch with rsyslog.

- because containers can't send a signal to a service in another one, logrotate is configured with "copytroncate"
- Is this option reliable ?
- The issue is that rsyslog stops sending msg to remote host once the rotation occurred.

- I found the option reopenOnTruncate="on" of rsyslog that solves the issue, but it is marked as experimental.
Is it supported/recommended ?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL8 

How reproducible:
always, outside of openstack

Steps to Reproduce:
1. configure imfile on a log file and omfwd to send it to remote host
2. rotate the log
3. 

Actual results:
Logs are not sent to remote anymore after the rotation

Expected results:
Logs sent to elasticsearch
The main question is: Is this configuration expected to work ?

Thank you !

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