delete old logfiles

[richard lucassen]

On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 10:12:30 -0600
"Marc Powell" <marc at ena.com> wrote:

> > Of course, but what happens if nagios is running for a few months
> > checking hundreds of sites? Nagios will sooner or later fill up your
> > '/var' partition. That's not a very good idea IMHO ;-)
> 
> Seriously? It's not as if you are completely helpless here... Create
> or use a partition that is more suited to whatever retention schedule
> you are wanting. That should be an obvious solution.
> 
> [nagios at betelgeuse var]$ pwd; du -sh archives/
> /usr/local/nagios/var
> 1.7G    archives
> 
> The above directory contains archives beginning in June of 2002 for
> about 2800 services on 1800 devices. It's overkill as the standard
> reports will go back no further than 2 years but I need to keep about
> 5 years worth. I still have > 10 Gigs of space for archive storage and
> another 17 or so years to go before I have to worry about space.

Ok, there are a lot of ways to avoid this problem, but maybe it's
something for the wishlist to have a variable that limits the size of
the archive. Something like

max_archive_size=500MB
max_archive_time=180days

But never mind, you're right that it's not a very big problem ;-)

R.

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