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Previously I wrote about How To Install/Uninstall Dell Open Manage Server Administrator(OMSA) On SLES9 or SLES10 and I found another error which is TTY log that keep increasing without automated housekeeping.

As I understand from Dell malling list, there is no way to turn it off. Too bad, I have a TTY log file that almost go up to 1G.

-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 962M Jun 11 05:45 /var/log/TTY_00000000.log

So, let me explain how to housekeeping OMSA TTY log file using logrotate.

Edit /etc/logrotate.d/omsa-tty and save it as below:

#vi /etc/logrotate.d/omsa-tty
/var/log/TTY_00000000.log {
daily
dateext
notifempty
rotate 7
compress
postrotate
/etc/init.d/dsm_om_shrsvc restart
endscript
}

Personally I don’t think this TTY log file are mission critical to any Linux system.

Basically this file will compress /var/log/TTY_00000000.log file, rotate/restart daily and keep history for 7 days. To make logrotate effective immediately, I would suggest you run:

#logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.d/omsa-tty

Let’s see the example below:

#ls -lth /var/log/TTY*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 962K Jun 11 05:45 /var/log/TTY_00000000.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 150K Jun 10 23:25 /var/log/TTY_00000000.log-20080610.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 150K Jun 09 23:25 /var/log/TTY_00000000.log-20080609.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 201K Jun 08 23:25 /var/log/TTY_00000000.log-20080608.gz

I hope this will be helpful for you.

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