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Jul 29, 2009

Does the F5 delete ungzip'd log files

All,   I had an issue that required me to unzip the old ltm log files (in var/log), but I just viewed them via a SSH session (never copied them off), however the following day the unzipped log ...
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Jul 30, 2009
apologies -realised my first explaination is as clear as mud. Here are the steps I did:

 

 

1) SSH to LTM running 9.4 and go in to the /var/log folder

 

2) Unzipped the previous days log file :

 

gzip -d ltm.1.gz

 

 

fter viewwing the file forgot to recompress it so ended up leaving the log in /var/log/ (so full path of the file was /var/log/ltm.1 )

 

 

3) Came back the following day and the ltm.1 file was missing from the folder and I can't seem to see it in any of the archives

 

 

This happened on two LTM's so presuing this is by design to keep logs files in order but was wondering if anyone can explain what happened to the log files?

 

 

thanks