[SOLVED] running a version 4.5.6 or prior? Prevent Large Log File

mmorse · Post by **mmorse** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 8:30 am

It's relatively ok to delete that log - When you have the time, I would get yourself on 4.5.10 at the minimum, even if your not ready for the 5.0 jump yet.

padraig · Post by **padraig** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 8:46 am

[quote user="alexc1103"]Thanks for the tips with the zmmtaconfig.log, mine was 6.1G and making the nightly backup take forever! Backup times are down now and the zimbra directory down from 9.1G to 3G

[/QUOTE]
Hi alexc1103,
What do you use for backups is it the default zmbackup if so does this backup log files?

as well as user data?
Thanks,

Padraig.

fajarpri · Post by **fajarpri** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 7:30 pm

Thanks mmorse

@padraig:

Sorry for jumping in, since my /opt/zimbra resides on LVM, I use the LVM backup script. It's in the Forum. Search for 'backup lvm'

It will backup the whole zimbra directories including the logs.

bjared · Post by **bjared** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 2:16 pm

I'm running 4.5.10, and I have two log files that have entries as early as February 2007:
[zimbra@zimbra1 log]$ ls -alh zmconvertd.log

-rw-rw-r-- 1 zimbra zimbra 372M Jan 9 15:07 zmconvertd.log

[zimbra@zimbra1 log]$ ls -alh zmmtaconfig.log

-rw-rw-r-- 1 zimbra zimbra 5.4G Jan 9 15:07 zmmtaconfig.log
They're still getting appended to, so I'm not sure what exactly 4.5.10 is supposed

to fix with these files? Zimbra seems to rotate the other logs. I think I'm going

to add my own entries into /etc/logrotate.d/zimbra for these files I guess:
/opt/zimbra/log/zmmtaconfig.log {

daily

missingok

copytruncate

notifempty

create 0644 zimbra zimbra

compress

size 5000k

rotate 7

}
/opt/zimbra/log/zmconvertd.log {

daily

missingok

copytruncate

notifempty

create 0644 zimbra zimbra

compress

size 5000k

rotate 7

}
That should take care of those. Was their omission from the logrotate config

file an oversight, or planned?
--Brian

mmorse · Post by **mmorse** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 2:38 pm

4.5.7+ lowered the log intensity level: Bug 18445 - zmmtaconfig default loglevel is set to high

5.0.0 (& minor change for 5.0.1) added log rotation: Bug 10398 - clean up logging for swatch, zmmtaconfig

fajarpri · Post by **fajarpri** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 5:45 pm

Thanks bjared for the sharing.

I'll add it into mine.