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<div>I am ubuntu, defaults from the server installation, with zendto set up from the installer script. I have neither /var/log/syslog nor /var/log/messages, I did go there to look. </div>
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<div>If I search for 'syslog' with mlocate I don't see any log.</div>
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<div>Contents of /var/log</div>
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<div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 174 Apr 3 06:52 alternatives.log</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 186 Feb 28 06:46 alternatives.log.1</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.9K Jan 4 15:28 alternatives.log.2.gz</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">drwxr-x--- 2 root adm 4.0K Apr 3 00:00 apache2</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Apr 3 06:53 apt</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64K Apr 21 2022 bootstrap.log</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">-rw-rw---- 1 root utmp 0 Apr 1 00:00 btmp</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">-rw-rw---- 1 root utmp 0 Mar 1 00:00 btmp.1</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">drwxr-xr-x 2 clamav clamav 4.0K Mar 31 00:00 clamav</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">-rw-r----- 1 root adm 25K Apr 2 10:21 cloud-init-output.log</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">-rw-r----- 1 root adm 510K Apr 2 10:21 cloud-init.log</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Apr 18 2022 dist-upgrade</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12K Apr 3 06:53 dpkg.log</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22K Mar 21 06:28 dpkg.log.1</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.5K Feb 28 06:46 dpkg.log.2.gz</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49K Jan 31 06:59 dpkg.log.3.gz</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32K Jan 5 09:53 faillog</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 484 Jan 4 14:46 fontconfig.log</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">drwxr-x--- 3 root adm 4.0K Nov 3 2022 installer</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">drwxr-sr-x+ 3 root systemd-journal 4.0K Nov 3 2022 journal</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 286K Apr 2 10:21 lastlog</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">drwx------ 2 root root 4.0K Apr 21 2022 private</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">drwxr-x--- 2 root adm 4.0K Apr 1 00:00 unattended-upgrades</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 187 Jan 5 10:58 vmware-network.1.log</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 187 Jan 4 14:13 vmware-network.2.log</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 187 Jan 5 13:44 vmware-network.log</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">-rw------- 1 root root 5.1K Apr 2 10:20 vmware-vmsvc-root.1.log</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">-rw------- 1 root root 5.1K Jan 5 13:43 vmware-vmsvc-root.2.log</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">-rw------- 1 root root 4.8K Jan 5 10:56 vmware-vmsvc-root.3.log</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">-rw------- 1 root root 3.8K Apr 2 10:21 vmware-vmsvc-root.log</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">-rw------- 1 root root 4.1K Apr 2 10:21 vmware-vmtoolsd-root.log</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 24K Apr 2 10:21 wtmp</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">drwxrwxr-x 2 root www-data 4.0K Apr 1 00:00 zendto</span></font></div>
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<div>Ian Elston</div>
<div>Senior Networks officer</div>
<div>Information Systems & Technology</div>
<div>The University of Bolton</div>
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<div>-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Sangster, Mark <m.v.sangster@abdn.ac.uk> <br>
Sent: 02 April 2024 16:25<br>
To: Elston, Ian <I.Elston@bolton.ac.uk>; ZendTo Users <zendto@zend.to><br>
Subject: RE: my server became full</div>
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<div>It does depend on your specific distribution; some of them log to /var/log/syslog or /var/log/messages.</div>
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<div>Indeed, any log could be generated depending on your syslog setup.</div>
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<div>Either hunt the logs in /var/log or review your syslog setup.</div>
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<div>It is very unlikely that a default OS setup will not record cron activity.</div>
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<div>Cheers</div>
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<div>From: Elston, Ian <<a href="mailto:I.Elston@bolton.ac.uk">I.Elston@bolton.ac.uk</a>></div>
<div>Sent: Tuesday, April 2, 2024 4:18 PM</div>
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<div>Subject: RE: my server became full</div>
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<div>I don't appear to have such a log file, or any cron log file.</div>
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<div>Information Systems & Technology</div>
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<div>From: Sangster, Mark <<a href="mailto:m.v.sangster@abdn.ac.uk">m.v.sangster@abdn.ac.uk</a>></div>
<div>Sent: 02 April 2024 14:19</div>
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<div>Cc: Elston, Ian <<a href="mailto:I.Elston@bolton.ac.uk">I.Elston@bolton.ac.uk</a>></div>
<div>Subject: RE: my server became full</div>
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<div>The cron log (/var/log/cron.log), would at least acknowledge that it ran and when.</div>
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<div>e.g. Apr 2 12:05:01 (server) CROND[92540]: (root) CMD (find -H /var/zendto/incoming -type f -mmin +1440 -delete >/dev/null 2>&1)</div>
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<div>Cheers</div>
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<div>> First, I'd check the log files to see if cron actually ran the job</div>
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<div>This was my first thought, but I don't *think* it logs anywhere... Looking at the entries in the cron they output to /dev/null and not to a log file.</div>
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<div>> I haven't looked at the preferences file in ages; maybe there's an option in there that needs to be set to enable the cleanup?</div>
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<div>Not that I can see</div>
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<div>First, I'd check the log files to see if cron actually ran the job; if not maybe there's some info about why not.</div>
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<div>I haven't looked at the preferences file in ages; maybe there's an option in there that needs to be set to enable the cleanup?</div>
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<div>Hello all,</div>
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<div>Two posts in two [working] days, sorry about this....</div>
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<div>My zendto was down this morning, due to being full. Turns out the /var/zendto/incoming was very large and had files in from January</div>
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<div>root@zeus:/home/nads# du -h /var/zendto/incoming</div>
<div>28G /var/zendto/incoming</div>
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<div>I found an older mail list thread from June 2021 about a cron job which should exist to tidy up that directory. I've checked and my crontab does appear to have the required entry</div>
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<div># Cron jobs for ZendTo to remove expired drop-offs and update usage graphs</div>
<div>5 0 * * * root /usr/bin/php /opt/zendto/sbin/cleanup.php /opt/zendto/config/preferences.php >/dev/null 2>&1</div>
<div>25 * * * * root /usr/bin/php /opt/zendto/sbin/cleanup.php /opt/zendto/config/preferences.php --no-warnings >/dev/null 2>&1</div>
<div>15 0 * * * root /usr/bin/php /opt/zendto/sbin/emailSummary.php /opt/zendto/config/preferences.php >/dev/null 2>&1</div>
<div>5 */4 * * * root find -H /var/zendto/incoming -type f -mmin +1440 -delete >/dev/null 2>&1</div>
<div>1 1 * * * root /usr/bin/php /opt/zendto/sbin/rrdInit.php /opt/zendto/config/preferences.php 2>&1 | /bin/grep -iv 'illegal attempt to update using time'</div>
<div>3 3 * * * root /usr/bin/php /opt/zendto/sbin/rrdUpdate.php /opt/zendto/config/preferences.php 2>&1 | sed '$ d' | /bin/grep -v '^[0-9]*x[0-9]*$'</div>
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<div>Looks like the entry to tidy up /incoming is not running, but I also have blank graphs, which suggests the rrd ones might not be working either... which also make me worry about the other entries...</div>
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<div>Is there any way I can troubleshoot these cron jobs?</div>
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<div>Installed version is the latest I think, server was only built (in January) using the installer</div>
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<div>Listing... Done</div>
<div>zendto/lynx,trusty,xenial,bionic,now 6.13-3 all [installed]</div>
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<div>To get my space back I have run (ran?) the command from the crontab find -H /var/zendto/incoming -type f -mmin +1440 -delete >/dev/null 2>&1</div>
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<div>root@zeus:/home/nads# du -h /var/zendto/incoming</div>
<div>12K /var/zendto/incoming</div>
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<div>And now I have plenty of space back.</div>
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