topic Re: Failed job mail sent every 10 minutes in Skyline Health Diagnostics (SHD)

Failed job mail sent every 10 minutes

Penobscot — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 15:10:54 GMT

I was in the shell and received a new-mail message. There is now a 22MB mail file with "mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/log/sa’: File exists", with a new mail every 10 minutes. The sender is "(Cron Daemon)". I would like to stop or fix whatever is generating this, unless doing that will break something.

Re: Failed job mail sent every 10 minutes

anshumansingh — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 08:58:58 GMT

Hi @Penobscot ,

Can you please explain if the issue is observed in SHD appliance and give us some more details about the version of SHD and how to reproduce the problem in the lab

Re: Failed job mail sent every 10 minutes

Penobscot — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 02:17:19 GMT

SHD appliance at 4.0.0. Deployed original version 3.0.2 from ova, with subsequent updates via the appliance. To reproduce, SSH to appliance and log in as root.

Mail is at /var/mail/root

Cron jobs are at /etc/cron.d. There is a file called sysstat that contains the following. Manually executing the sa1 script gives the output, "mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/log/sa’: File exists". The sa1 script is dated 2022-11-21, which is possibly when the problem was introduced, if it is the source.

# Run system activity accounting tool every 10 minutes
*/10 * * * * root /usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1
# 0 * * * * root /usr/lib/sa/sa1 600 6
# Generate a text summary of previous day process accounting at 00:07
7 0 * * * root /usr/lib/sa/sa2 -A

Re: Failed job mail sent every 10 minutes

BillFrazier — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 17:44:02 GMT

I'm seeing the same thing. Was there ever a fix to this?

Re: Failed job mail sent every 10 minutes

Penobscot — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 18:35:31 GMT

No fix through 4.0.2.