[cron.d] Add cron job to periodically clean-up core files #3449
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* Create script to scan /var/core and clean-up older core files * Create cron job to run clean-up script Signed-off-by: Danny Allen <daall@microsoft.com>
| core_files = [f for f in os.listdir(CORE_FILE_DIR) if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(CORE_FILE_DIR, f))] | ||
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Just a thought, should we have this as a generic infra so this can be used for cleanup other files also (old syslogs, swss.recs etc)?
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That's a good idea! I'll take a look at it.
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This is a great idea. Can we come back with another PR for that?
There are some specialty with core file handling, there are some persisted knowledge of core file name structure here. It is a bit hard to directly apply to log files.
But in general, I think we should have a more generic tool for other files.
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I agree, I think we should put some more thought into a more generic way of doing this. One possible idea is to provide different functions to process different types of files, but let's come back it later.
* [cron.d] Create cron job to periodically clean-up core files * Create script to scan /var/core and clean-up older core files * Create cron job to run clean-up script Signed-off-by: Danny Allen <daall@microsoft.com> * Update interval for running cron job * Respond to feedback * Change syslog id
[cron.d] Add cron job to periodically clean-up core files
Signed-off-by: Danny Allen (daall@microsoft.com)
- What I did
I added a script to periodically clean-up old core files from the /var/core directory and installed it as a cron job in the image. The script is currently configured to keep the 4 newest core files per process in /var/core.
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Add cron job to periodically clean-up core files
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