Bug ID 663580: logrotate does not automatically run when /var/log reaches 90% usage

Last Modified: Nov 07, 2022

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Affected Product:  See more info
BIG-IP TMOS(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
12.1.0, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.1.1, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2, 12.1.3, 13.0.0, 13.0.0 HF1, 13.0.0 HF2, 13.0.0 HF3, 13.0.1

Fixed In:
13.1.0, 12.1.3.1

Opened: May 08, 2017
Severity: 3-Major
Related Article:
K31981624

Symptoms

The alertd daemon does not run logrotate when the diskmonitor utility detects that /var/log has less than 10% free space.

Impact

The /var/log filesystem might become completely full, preventing new log messages from being written. Note: K8865: Overview of the diskmonitor utility (https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K8865) provides a desription for expected behavior.

Conditions

/var/log has less than 10% free space.

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

The alertd daemon now correctly recognizes the log message from diskmonitor to initiate logrotate.

Behavior Change