/var/log/cobbler/tasks occupies high amount of disk space

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Environment

SUSE Manager 3
SUSE Manager 2.1

Situation

Logs files in /var/log/cobber/tasks occupy a high amount of disk space:

# du -hs /var/log/cobbler/tasks/
4.2G /var/log/cobbler/tasks

Resolution

As disk space on SUSE Manager is very important monitor and until a solution has been implemented please use the following find command to locate files older than X days to delete:

find /var/log/cobbler/tasks/ -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \;

This will delete all files older than 30 days. In case find exits with an error about argument list too long please adjust the -mtime +30 value to something else like:

find /var/log/cobbler/tasks/ -mtime +90 -exec rm {} \;
find /var/log/cobbler/tasks/ -mtime +150 -exec rm {} \;

to reduce the list of files. Once all older files have been deleted, a cron job may help to avoid a future disk space issue:

# cat /etc/cron.d/cleanup_cobbler_tasks
5 12 * * 5 root /usr/bin/find /var/log/cobbler/tasks/* -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \;

Cause

cobbler logs are stored in separate files and not a single one, hence there is no logrotate available to clean up the directory. Over time this may consume several GiB of disk space.

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