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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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Brian_Kenworthy
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Jan 28, 2015

I ran into this issue after upgrading to 11.5 over the weekend. Does anyone know where the cron email messages are logged? I can't find them in the usual places /var/log/cron, /var/log/email, /var/log/messages

 

I want to confrim that the config changes to /etc/monitors/monitors_logrotate.conf had the desired effect.

 

Thanks!