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Vinne73
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May 17, 2017

Logrotate on 13.x has an extra option, how to disable

Hi all,   I run both Bigip LTM 11.x and 13.x systems. I noticed a difference in the default logrotation. On 13.x an option "delaycompress" is used, resulting in the first archive not be compressed...
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Aug 21, 2017

If anybody is interested, I found out how to fix this by updating the template on /usr. This template is then used to generate /var/run/config/logrotate_common.conf by the Big-IP.

 

Procedure:

 

  • Remount /usr as read-write RW: mount -o remount,rw /usr
  • Comment out "delaycompress" in /usr/share/defaults/config/templates/logrotatecommon.tmpl
  • Remount /usr as read-only: mount -o remount,ro /usr

Now you need to make a change, via tmsh, to one of the parameters that's used e.g. log-rotate common-backlogs.

 

You really need to change, not just set it to its current value.