Cron Daemon root@oxygen.eqiad.wmnet via wikimedia.org to root /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: error: kafkatee:4 unknown user 'syslog' error: found error in /var/log/kafkatee.log , skipping
Due to: https://github.com/wikimedia/analytics-kafkatee/blob/debian/debian/kafkatee.logrotate
Oxygen does not have a syslog username and rsyslog daemon running. As for varnishkafka, we added logrotate/rsyslog configuration in Debian packaging.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T294906 Puppet Improvements | |||
| Duplicate | jbond | T265138 Work required to prepare for puppet 7 | |||
| Resolved | SLyngshede-WMF | T273673 replace all puppet crons with systemd timers | |||
| Open | None | T132324 Tracking and Reducing cron-spam to root@ | |||
| Resolved | elukey | T132322 kafkatee cronspam from oxygen |
Change 283411 had a related patch set uploaded (by Elukey):
Override kafkatee's default logrotate/rsyslog configuration.
Change 283411 merged by Elukey:
Override kafkatee's default logrotate/rsyslog configuration.
Change 284635 had a related patch set uploaded (by Elukey):
Add delaycompress to kafkatee's logrotate config to avoid cronspam.
Change 284635 merged by Elukey:
Add delaycompress to kafkatee's logrotate config to avoid cronspam.