117 Gbytes in zabbix_server.log

[voyagerlinux]

I have a problem with zabbix 1.4.4. I have configured my zabbix server to use MySQL database, but in last days the file zabbix_server.log has become huge.

The disk space used on zabbix server is at 100% and ssh is unestable and very slow. This problem freezes all my other services.

Sometimes I have to use the support of my dedicated server provider in order to locate and delete such file and then restart the zabbix server to get remote access.

I have no idea about problem, somewhere I read something about that if MySQL server have some error or is unavailable, the zabbix server dumps a large amount of data in log files.

Somebody made a "log monitor" script to detect a "MySQL error" and then restart or stops zabbix to avoid this problem.

I wouldn't like to "reproduce" this error because this data dump is very fast and I can't read the "tail" of server log without get disconnected.

Do you have some idea?

TIA

[Tenzer]

Is the logfile you are talking about from the database or from the zabbix daemon?
Where is it located on the filesystem?

[laksa]

zabbix_server.log

I think you need to uncomment line #LogFileSize=10 in zabbix_server.conf file to allow zabbix_server.log rotated at 10M size or any sizes you want.

[voyagerlinux]

Huger Zabbix Server LogFile

Is located in /var/log/zabbix/zabbix_server.log

and

LogFileSize=10

is uncommented

[Alexei]

Is located in /var/log/zabbix/zabbix_server.log

and

LogFileSize=10

is uncommented

I don't think it was uncommented before start of ZABBIX server.

[voyagerlinux]

I don't think it was uncommented before start of ZABBIX server.

Yesterday it happens again

Today I made a crontab entry to erase the big file:

*/12 * * * * /bin/rm -f /var/log/zabbix/zabbix_server.log.old