[Ovirt-devel] [PATCH] Using log rotation to minimize writing to the managed node filesystem.

[Perry N. Myers]

Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
> From: Darryl Pierce <dpierce at redhat.com>
> 
> First draft of this. I'm still continuing to run the managed node to see what other files are
> growing over time.

Two quick comments...  How much does cronie and dependencies add to the 
managed node.  (I would hope not much...)

And shouldn't this stuff be in the ovirt-host rpm instead of in common-post?

Perry

> Signed-off-by: Darryl L. Pierce <dpierce at redhat.com>
> ---
>  ovirt-host-creator/common-pkgs.ks |    1 +
>  ovirt-host-creator/common-post.ks |   24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/ovirt-host-creator/common-pkgs.ks b/ovirt-host-creator/common-pkgs.ks
> index 8d0ba70..2d1ad6e 100644
> --- a/ovirt-host-creator/common-pkgs.ks
> +++ b/ovirt-host-creator/common-pkgs.ks
> @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ augeas
>  nc
>  bind-utils
>  syslinux
> +cronie
>  hal
>  ovirt-managed-node
>  -policycoreutils
> diff --git a/ovirt-host-creator/common-post.ks b/ovirt-host-creator/common-post.ks
> index 723b838..300bc3c 100644
> --- a/ovirt-host-creator/common-post.ks
> +++ b/ovirt-host-creator/common-post.ks
> @@ -12,6 +12,30 @@ cat > /etc/sysconfig/iptables << \EOF
>  COMMIT
>  EOF
>  
> +echo "Setting up log rotation"
> +cat > /etc/logrotate.d/ovirt << \EOF
> +/var/log/*.log {
> +    rotate 0
> +    missingok
> +    notifempty
> +    size=10k
> +}
> +EOF
> +
> +echo "Creating the hourly rotation file"
> +cat > /etc/cron.hourly/ovirt-rotatelog" << \EOF
> +#!/bin/sh
> +
> +/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.d/ovirt
> +
> +EXITVALUE=$?
> +if [ $EXITVALUE != 0 ]; then
> +    /usr/bin/logger -t logrotate "ALERT exited abnormally with [$EXITVALUE]"
> +fi
> +exit 0
> +EOF
> +chmod +x /etc/cron.hourly/ovirt-rotatelog
> +
>  echo "Writing ovirt-functions script"
>  # common functions
>  cat > /etc/init.d/ovirt-functions << \EOF


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