Thanks Andy ... I agree built-in log rotation is a better solution.
We wiped logrotate.d/xrootd on all our recent installs ... but I have one proxy
instance (running 4.2) that still has it on, will try to investigate what's
happening.
Matevz
On 05/14/15 13:32, Andrew Hanushevsky wrote:
> We had a similar problem in CERN. Log files were not being rotated at all. This
> was fixed by changing some setting in logrotate. Could you run the logrotate
> script in test mode to see what is wrong? There seems to be an unintended
> conflict of something the script does versus what logrotate wants to do. Mind
> you, you will never get log rotation at the time you start logrotate if you are
> rotating almost anything else. A big annoyance because then you don't know which
> log file you should look at if a problem occurs around the time logrotate is
> supposed to run. Frankly, other than lack of compression (and easy thing to add
> via a cron job) the xrootd internal log file rotation is superior simply because
> it's predictable.
>
> Andy
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Matevz Tadel
> Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2015 12:02 PM
> To: Andrew Hanushevsky ; Tommaso Boccali ; [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: xrootd 4.1.1 logrotate problem?
>
> Hi,
>
> Has this been understood now? I'm asking because OSG (and probably epel) is
> shipping xrootd with -k fifo and logrotate on and this leads to logs being lost
> (it seems like xrootd still does rotation at midnight and then logrotate kicks
> in at 4am and moves the log away ... so this 4-hour interval is all that is left
> of the logs for each day).
>
> Matevz
>
> On 03/12/15 12:43, Andrew Hanushevsky wrote:
>> Hi Tommaso,
>> Yes, we have seen this problem at other sites that have moved to 4.1.1 and we
>> don’t understand it yet. The current solution is to revert to internal log
>> rotation. To do that a) remove the xrootd file from /etc/logrotate.d, and b)
>> change the “-k” command line option for starting xrootd/cmsd (in
>> /etc/sysconfig/xrootd) by changing “-k fifo” to “-k 7”.
>> Andy
>> *From:* Tommaso Boccali <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>> *Sent:* Thursday, March 12, 2015 1:00 AM
>> *To:* [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>> *Subject:* xrootd 4.1.1 logrotate problem?
>> Ciao, we installed in pisa xrootd 4.1.1 (see *)
>> and since then we basically miss xrootd.log and cmsd.log
>> we just have the rotated version (**)
>> a restart helps, they appear for the day but disappear at the next logrotate.
>> any idea?
>> logrotate setting for xroot was NOT changed by us (***)
>> *:
>> [root@stormgf1 ~]# rpm -qa|grep xrootd
>> xrootd-client-libs-4.1.1-1.slc6.x86_64
>> xrootd-server-4.1.1-1.slc6.x86_64
>> xrootd-selinux-4.1.1-1.slc6.noarch
>> xrootd-server-libs-4.1.1-1.slc6.x86_64
>> xrootd-cmstfc-1.4.3-3.osg.el6.x86_64
>> xrootd-4.1.1-1.slc6.x86_64
>> xrootd-libs-4.1.1-1.slc6.x86_64
>> xrootd-client-compat-4.1.1-1.slc6.x86_64
>> **:
>> [root@xrootd xrootd]# pwd
>> /var/log/xrootd
>> [root@xrootd xrootd]# ls -ltr|tail
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 xrootd xrootd 307507949 Mar 9 23:59 xrootd.log.20150309
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 xrootd xrootd 154876864 Mar 9 23:59 cmsd.log.20150309
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 xrootd xrootd 1267488 Mar 10 04:02 cmsd.log.3.gz
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 xrootd xrootd 3607781 Mar 10 04:02 xrootd.log.3.gz
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 xrootd xrootd 2738449 Mar 11 04:02 cmsd.log.2.gz
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 xrootd xrootd 7412756 Mar 11 04:02 xrootd.log.2.gz
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 xrootd xrootd 4096 Mar 12 04:02 cmsfr
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 xrootd xrootd 4096 Mar 12 04:02 cmsit
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 xrootd xrootd 3793752 Mar 12 04:02 cmsd.log.1.gz
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 xrootd xrootd 22607515 Mar 12 04:02 xrootd.log.1.gz
>> ***:
>> [root@xrootd logrotate.d]# cat xrootd
>> /var/log/xrootd/*/*.log /var/log/xrootd/*.log
>> {
>> missingok
>> nomail
>> nocreate
>> rotate 100
>> notifempty
>> daily
>> compress
>> postrotate
>> PIPE=`dirname $1`/.`basename $1`
>> if [ -p $PIPE ]; then
>> /usr/bin/expect -c "set timeout 2; spawn /bin/sh -c \"echo ping >
>> $PIPE\"; expect timeout { exit 1 } eof { exit 0 }";
>> fi
>> endscript
>> }
>> --
>> Tommaso Boccali
>> INFN Pisa
>>
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