Sunday, August 11, 2013

Cobbler logfiles growing out of control!

I discovered my cobbler logs were starting to take up a noticeable portion of my /var/log/ filesystem.  It appears to be all in the pseudo-rotated log file collection in /var/log/cobbler/tasks/ .  If there's a setting to control how much is retained, I haven't seen it yet.  And I didn't have time to go looking as I had some filesystem issues to get through.

Here's my temporary fix:

# cat > /etc/cron.daily/zz-cobbler-tmpwatch

#!/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/tmpwatch -umc -f 720 /var/log/cobbler/tasks/

And that was it.

Now I can breathe easier while I dig out a better fix.

Let me know if this worked for you, or whether you found a better fix in cobbler itself.