Last Modified: Oct 21, 2024
Affected Product(s):
F5OS Velos
Known Affected Versions:
F5OS-A 1.5.2, F5OS-A 1.7.0
Fixed In:
F5OS-A 1.8.0
Opened: May 22, 2024 Severity: 3-Major
/var/log/messages growing quickly, consuming the disk space, making the box unusable.
When syslog generated files are configured to be forwarded as files, forwarding efficiency can be affected compared to utilizing selectors. The /var/log/messages being in this list can lead to a cyclical logging issue, where the disk space is consumed faster than the logs can be rotated out, potentially resulting in a full disk.
Having /var/log/messages as a host-logs files entry to forward the file lines to a remote destination.
Use selectors instead for any file that is syslog generated. The host-logs files configuration is meant for text files that cannot be forwarded through selectors configuration.
To prevent filling the disk, files that are forwarded out line by line would not be processed locally. This will prevent having entries in /var/log/messages.