one User domain error log filling the server and causing it to crash

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Hi,
sometime, domain errorlog is filling to 30-40GB and even more and full the Disk space of the server and server is crashing
it's possible to limit the log files (access & errors) from DirectAdmin gui with some default of 100-200MB per user so it's will not happen
I do not think it's right to define separately for each server from ssh manually in logrotate...

Regards,
StarNetwork
 
I think I would first ask that user to fix his website or suggest what to fix, or else you would have to charge him extra for the trouble he's causing.

Besides that I believe you can also limit what errors(level) are written in the logfiles.
 
BBM said:
I think I would first ask that user to fix his website or suggest what to fix, or else you would have to charge him extra for the trouble he's causing.

Besides that I believe you can also limit what errors(level) are written in the logfiles.
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Hi, your right in both, but:
1. in real time, you can't Count on it to catch it in time before server is full
2. I know, but still we want to show to users the relevant errors, and also sometime it's even in "high level" of errors

Regards,
 
You should put the logs on a different partition to keep your server running if the logs fill the disk.
 
sysdev said:
You should put the logs on a different partition to keep your server running if the logs fill the disk.
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it's can be solution, but am looking for out of the box solution in the panel gui level, some size limit
 
Directadmin has a Depreciated value for apache log size before rotation (log_rotate_size)... Apache logs are rotated each tally, so you might want to run it more often than once per day. In this case you might need to adjust logs_to_keep in directadmin.conf to have needed rotated logs.

Another solution would be to disable log rotation in directadmin with

Code: 
rotation=0

and use logrotate for it.
 
Currently directadmin does not have such an opportunity. As another solution would be to write a script to monitor logs size and trigger a user tally process:

Code: 
echo "action=tally&value=username&type=user" >> data/task.queue

username should be changed with a real username here. Probably monit can be used here to monitor logs' size.
 
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