I haven't worked on Nortel / Avaya systems for many years, but still have access to an old database that might help with this record that I've found?
Problem
Increasing the log file rotation on a linuxbase signalling server
Solution Summary
Log in to the server in question at root level and use the VI commands
This applies to Any linuxbase sig server hosting Avaya/nortel applications
Details:
Sometimes Avaya request debug log file collection to assist in problem resolution and it may be necesary to increase the amount of historical ss_common.log file held on the affected server.
To do this do the following
1. log in to the server CLi and expedite to root user
2. Navigate to /etc/logrotate.d directory
3. cat the existing file ss_common_syslog (It will show the default value as per below)
/var/log/nortel/ss_common.log
{
nocompress
daily
rotate 5
create 640 root nortel
olddir /var/log/nortel/old_logs/
size=5M
missingok
sharedscripts
postrotate
/bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/rsyslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
endscript
}
4. Using the VI editor modify the file to read as per below
/log/nortel/ss_common.log
{
compress
daily
rotate 30
create 640 root nortel
olddir /var/log/nortel/old_logs/
size=5M
missingok
sharedscripts
postrotate
/bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/rsyslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
endscript
}
5. Then restart the services, for example
$ /sbin/service rsyslog restart
EXAMPLE:
[root@netsucm ~]# /sbin/service rsyslog restart
Shutting down kernel logger: [ OK ]
Shutting down system logger: [ OK ]
Starting system logger: [ OK ]
Starting kernel logger: [ OK ]
[root@netsucm ~]#
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