RHV-H 4.0: Various log files growing continuously because crond is not running

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Issue

  • Various log files that use the log rotation facility are not being rotated, and as a result are growing continously, with the potential of filling up the file system.

  • Such log files are;

  - /var/log/vdsm/vdsm.log
  - /var/log/vdsm/supervdsm.log
  - /var/log/vdsm/mom.log
  - /var/log/messages
  - /var/log/secure
  - /var/log/cron
  - /var/log/maiilog
  - /var/log/spooler
  - /var/log/audit/audit.log

Environment

  • Red Hat Virtualization Hypervisor (RHV-H) 4.x

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