Mercury - Hudson log filling

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Posted by peterm95018 on May 30, 2011 at 3:28pm

Over the past month, I have observed that my mercury instance has stopped twice; about 14 days apart. In both cases the culprit appears to be that the hudson log is filling. From my syslog:

hudson: failed to write(client_errfd = 5): File too large

If I move the /var/log/hudson/hudson.log and restart the server, everything comes back properly.

For the time being, I'm turning Hudson log level to off. Here's a link that might help someone else: http://wiki.hudson-ci.org/display/HUDSON/Logging.

Any other tweaks I should consider?

Peter

Categories: Hudson, mercury 1.1, Question

Comments

logrotate

Posted by justintime on May 31, 2011 at 2:18pm

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I'm going to add a logrotate script for hudson to resolve this in new installs. If you want to implement it on an existing install, do this:

sudo -s
cat <<EOD > /etc/logrotate.d/hudson
/var/log/hudson/hudson.log
{
 daily
 copytruncate
 missingok
 compress
 delaycompress
 notifempty
 rotate 8
}
EOD

Your logfile will get rotated out the following morning, and every morning after.