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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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Vitaliy_Savrans
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Aug 15, 2014

Hi,

replace strings in your conf file:

size=5MB with size 5M

olddir=/var/log/monitors with olddir /var/log/monitors