eejeel 1 Report post September 14, 2018 I'am running the latest Stretch server version on a PiOne (Linux 4.14.65-sunxi). I think that something is going wrong with the logrotate. The rotation is done in /var/log.hdd directory (see also the scripts in /etc/logrotate.d/). But the original file of each is in /var/log directory and is not "cleared" after the rename, because it is not renamed. So, if Zram copies /var/log directory to the /var/log.hdd directory, the original file in /var/log with old logging and included new logging is written to the /var/log.hdd directory. In the next logrotate this growing file is compressed. In this situation/in my case the compressed files contains all the loggings and not only the loggings of the last day or week or month, depending which file is compressed. And the file is still growing and growing. Is my conclusion right or is something wrong in my Stretch installation. In the latest case, I could not find it. Please give me a hint. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dmeey 2 Report post September 20, 2018 I have already adressed this issue with a little demonstrations script in this thread: however, nobody answered yet. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Markus Rohner-Bührer 0 Report post November 25, 2018 Yes, Same problem here. var/log in ZRAM grows and grows. I see no sense in rotating logs on var/log.hdd What would be a feasible solution? Change all cron jobs? 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Igor 1363 Report post November 25, 2018 2 hours ago, Markus Rohner-Bührer said: Yes, Same problem here. var/log in ZRAM grows and grows. I see no sense in rotating logs on var/log.hdd What would be a feasible solution? Change all cron jobs? It should work this way: https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/packages/bsp/common/usr/lib/armbian/armbian-truncate-logs # write to SD /usr/lib/armbian/armbian-ramlog write >/dev/null 2>&1 # rotate logs on "disk" chown root.root -R /var/log.hdd /usr/sbin/logrotate --force /etc/logrotate.conf # truncate /usr/bin/find /var/log -name '*.log' -or -name '*.xz' -or -name 'lastlog' -or -name 'messages' -or -name 'debug' -or -name 'syslog' | xargs truncate --size 0 /usr/bin/find /var/log -name 'btmp' -or -name 'wtmp' -or -name 'faillog' | xargs truncate --size 0 # remove /usr/bin/find /var/log -name '*.[0-9]' -or -name '*.gz' | xargs rm >/dev/null 2>&1 triggered by cron job: */15 * * * * root /usr/lib/armbian/armbian-truncate-logs Where is the problem? 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
