System image client log file grows indefinitely

[Pat McGowan]

From what I can tell the log file for system image at /var/log/system-image/client.log is continually appended to and is not rolled or truncated.

My current log has entries from 8 months ago and is over 3MB.

Another phone shows entries 5 months old and is over 1MB

I assume those were since the last full data wipes and flash

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

I guess you're asking for a logrotate.d entry for /var/log/system-image/client.log?

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

Not proposing a solution just noting a problem, but sure that would resolve it.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

@barry any chance we can clear this one or does it need to be reassigned

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

@pat-mcgowan - Sorry I couldn't get this into si 3.1. I'm not sure what the right approach is for touch, but I don't think system-image client itself should be trimming the log files. logrotate or some other system facility should be doing it, IMO. It's not clear to me what that would be. I'll try to do some research but if you (or anyone on your team) has suggestions, please follow up here. I think once we figure out *how* to do it, it'll be easy to get a release out fairly quickly.

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

The following conf file will cause the log to rotate once a month and keep 3 months worth of logs. It should be installed to the folder /etc/logrotate.d

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package system-image - 3.1+16.04.20160407-0ubuntu1

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system-image (3.1+16.04.20160407-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * d/system-image.logrotate: Rotate the log file monthly. (LP:
    #1518955) d/control: Bump Standards-Version with no other changes
    necessary. (LP: #1518955)

 -- Barry Warsaw <email address hidden> Thu, 07 Apr 2016 15:49:08 +0000