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Renato
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Aug 13, 2014

Wrong logrotate configuration for /var/log/monitors generating an excess of cron email messages

We have a BIG-IP device that was generating a large amount cron email messages related to logrotation execution errors. The messages were the following: error: /etc/monitors/monitors_logrotate.con...
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nitass
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Aug 26, 2014

it is fixed in 11.6.0

ID441642 - /etc/monitors/monitors_logrotate.conf contains an error and this is noted every 30 minutes

root@(ve11a)(cfg-sync In Sync)(Active)(/Common)(tmos) show sys version

Sys::Version
Main Package
  Product     BIG-IP
  Version     11.6.0
  Build       0.0.401
  Edition     Final
  Date        Mon Aug 11 21:08:03 PDT 2014

root@(ve11a)(cfg-sync In Sync)(Active)(/Common)(tmos) run util bash -c "cat /etc/monitors/monitors_logrotate.conf"
/var/log/monitors/DBDaemon*.log {
    compress
    missingok
    ifempty
    rotate 7
    size 0
}

/var/log/monitors/*.log {
    compress
    missingok
    notifempty
    rotate 7
    size 5M
}