Hi!
Daily root@ cronspam from the elastic100* hosts:
Cron Daemon root@elastic1006.eqiad.wmnet via wikimedia.org
to root
/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
error: error creating output file /var/log/exim4/mainlog.1.gz: File exists
error: error creating output file /var/log/syslog.1.gz: File exists
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1
Any attempt to fix this would be awesome :)
Thanks!
Luca
| 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 | None | T132423 daily cronspam from elastic100* hosts |
Thanks for the report. @Gehel should take a look at this when he gets the chance, to see if there's anything he can do to fix it.
It seems that this happens because of empty gzipped log files (size == 0):
sudo find /var/log -name "*.gz" -size 0
I can find those empty .gz files on the following nodes:
elastic1006.eqiad.wmnet: /var/log/auth.log.1.gz
elastic1006.eqiad.wmnet: /var/log/exim4/mainlog.1.gz
elastic1012.eqiad.wmnet: /var/log/exim4/mainlog.1.gz
elastic1012.eqiad.wmnet: /var/log/auth.log.1.gz
elastic1012.eqiad.wmnet: /var/log/syslog.1.gz
elastic1016.eqiad.wmnet: /var/log/kern.log.1.gz
elastic1016.eqiad.wmnet: /var/log/exim4/mainlog.1.gz
elastic1016.eqiad.wmnet: /var/log/auth.log.1.gz
elastic1016.eqiad.wmnet: /var/log/syslog.1.gz
elastic1026.eqiad.wmnet: /var/log/exim4/mainlog.1.gz
elastic1026.eqiad.wmnet: /var/log/syslog.1.gz
elastic1026.eqiad.wmnet: /var/log/upstart/systemd-logind.log.7.gz
(no issue on codfw)
Cleanup done, will investigate more if the issue arise again.