[GLLUG] Weird logging behaviour request for suggestions

[Imran Chaudhry]

No probs - btw bid you check the ".d" dir for logrotate? Ubuntu
follows the classic Debian pattern of putting config snippets in ".d"
dirs and glassfish might have snuk something in there:

eg.

[imran at imran-laptop logrotate.d]$ pwd
/etc/logrotate.d
[imran at imran-laptop logrotate.d]$ ls -1 | head
apache2
apt
aptitude
consolekit
...
mongodb-server
mysql-server

On 20 December 2013 09:17, Iain Gray <iain.dv at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 19 December 2013 17:34, Imran Chaudhry <ichaudhry at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi Iain,
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>> The 6:25am bit made me recall cron.daily which by default is set to
>> run at that time - at least on Debian systems.
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> That is a great spot - it must be that, but there is no logrotate for those
> logfiles.
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> Well I have cleared out and set a logrotate now and everything is fine.
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> Thanks
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>> I'd check the cron stuff again - check /etc/cron.daily for any
>> symlinks or other entries that might be doing it. I'd bet that
>> Glassfish has put something in there. An idea is to examine the
>> package list of everything that comes with the Glassfish package for
>> something with cron in the name.
>>
>> Does glassfish run as a special user or something? Might be worth
>> checking the user-specific crontab?
>>
>> Here is the relevant line in /etc/crontab
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>>   25 6    * * *    root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / &&
>> run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )
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>> It's odd that the gzips are 0, even an gzip of an empty file comes to
>> ~20 bytes. My gut reaction is something with logrotate.
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>> On 19 December 2013 11:02, Iain Gray <iain.dv at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > hi
>> >
>> > I have a glassfish (2.1.1) server running on ubuntu 12.04 with a bizarre
>> > logging behaviour.
>> >
>> > The logging configuration is set up to log to a location and roll over
>> > to a
>> > new log once the log reaches 20MB. So far so good and this works fine.
>> > However There is something that is taking these logs and gzipping old
>> > ones
>> > at 6.25am every morning, but the gzips are all 0 bytes
>> >
>> > I have gone through logrotate, syslod,  rsyslogd, all crontabs on the
>> > system
>> > and can find nothing that is doing this zip.
>> >
>> > Does anyone have any suggestions as to 1. why the gzip is 0 and 2. what
>> > is
>> > doing it.
>> >
>> > Thanks
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