On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 18:01 -0700, Rick Philbrick wrote: > Hi, > > I am babysitting a few boxes that have cfengine running. These boxes > are filling up a 1gig partion with messages in the > /var/cfengine/outputs dir. How can I get it to stop doing this. I > think the guy who did the install recently didn't do any fine tuning. The fix > ,for now , is to go in and clear the dir, but to be honest thats > getting old. > > I haven't done any work with cfengine and am hoping this a matter of > editing a line a config file somewhere..... where is such file and > what line/s do i edit??
Not any particular file (other than perhaps cfagent.conf or update.conf, or any more appropriate files that get imported), but you can use the 'tidy' action sequence to prune the logs back. You probably will also want to attend to whatever is causing so much logging. I recently had a bunch of servers have problems resolving user and group names due to a failure of Samba's winbindd, caused ultimately by upgrades on the Windows domain controllers. I have a number of directories with many files that cfengine runs through to check ownership and this caused a tremendous number of 'unknown user "foo"' log entries, resulting in 600MB of logs on each host over a weekend. You might be experiencing something similar, which is fairly easy to fix. (It might be nice if cfengine had a mechanism like the Linux syslogd [and probably others], such that a large number of identical log entries are collapsed into 'last message repeated N times'.) Wil -- Wil Cooley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Naked Ape Consulting http://nakedape.cc * * * * Linux, UNIX, Networking and Security Solutions * * * *
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