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list Dan Vande More · Mon, 3 Oct 2005 17:00:22 -0500 ·
I just had an issue where one of servers was having a php issue. This
filled up /var/log/messages really fast (/var/log on separate
partition) - think gigs of logs in a few minutes. Naturally,  (bb)
client is going to see this difference and want to store that in its
diff file located in BBHOME/tmp. This, of course, filled up my root
partition (Which we can blame on the shortsightedness of the person
who partitioned this in the first place), exacerbating the problem.

In this particular situation, it was mostly the setup that caused this
issue, but is it worth considering putting some sanity checks into the
hobbit client to prevent this? Are they already there and I'm not
aware of them?

Thanks

Dan
list Henrik Størner · Tue, 4 Oct 2005 07:31:12 +0200 ·
quoted from Dan Vande More
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 05:00:22PM -0500, Dan Vande More wrote:
I just had an issue where one of servers was having a php issue. This
filled up /var/log/messages really fast (/var/log on separate
partition) - think gigs of logs in a few minutes. Naturally,  (bb)
client is going to see this difference and want to store that in its
diff file located in BBHOME/tmp. This, of course, filled up my root
partition (Which we can blame on the shortsightedness of the person
who partitioned this in the first place), exacerbating the problem.
Ouch - double trouble from the same root problem.
quoted from Dan Vande More
In this particular situation, it was mostly the setup that caused this
issue, but is it worth considering putting some sanity checks into the
hobbit client to prevent this? Are they already there and I'm not
aware of them?
The Hobbit client doesn't yet look at logfiles in any way, so it would
have avoided this issue and just sent in a critical disk alert - but 
that's really just pure luck.

I'll keep this in mind when I implement the Hobbit client's log
checking.


Regards,
Henrik