poller.php failing with "File size limit exceeded"

[roger69]

This is a new problem. It started happening prior to 6am today. All graphs stopped working, and my root email on the box is full of errors like this:

Subject: Cron <cacti@monitor2> php /var/www/html/cacti/poller.php > /dev/null 2>&1
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/bash>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <MAILTO=root>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=cacti>
X-Cron-Env: <USER=cacti>

/bin/bash: line 1: 3313 File size limit exceededphp /var/www/html/cacti/poller.php >/dev/null 2>&1

What on earth is causing this? Nothing has changed on the server. I hadn't added any new hosts to Cacti for several days prior to this problem.

Any help ASAP appreciated, as no hosts are being graphed at this point.

Roger

[roger69]

Someone had turned full log debugging on without bothering to tell anyone. Log had filled up to 2gb filesize.

<changing the Cacti admin password to something else>

Roger

[rony]

Opps!!

[TheWitness]

You should setup a logrot job to manage it's size if you want logging that high...

TheWitness

[aerce]

I experience the same problem when I try to run cactid

[root@cacti cactid]# ./cactid
CACTID: Using cactid config file [cactid.conf]
CACTID: Non Window envrionment, running as root, ICMP Ping available
CACTID: Version 0.8.6d starting
File size limit exceeded

Since yesterday, my cacti can't poll at all.
How can I solve this problem? If I must make the debug off, how to do that?

Thank you.

[rony]

Well, check the size of you cacti.log and well, delete it. It's to large.

[TheWitness]

Of course, you know that you are supposed to be running "php poller.php". You will likely have to run the following to clean up your mysql database:

mysql -u root -p cacti
> truncate table poller_output;
> quit

TheWitness

[dmojica]

File size limit exceededphp /var/www/html/cacti/poller.php
if the solution is these:

mysql -u root -p cacti
> truncate table poller_output;
> quit

the cuestion about this solucion is:

how i can change in the configuration to prevent or correct it automatically this event.??


my apologies for my english

say hello from Colombia

[gandalf]

This error should not occur on latest cacti 087b; poller_output is truncated prior to any new polling cycle. Please confirm
Reinhard

[dmojica]

The solution for this incident is: clear the cacti.log al last...!
some body knows where is i can configure the size of the cacti.log?
thanks!!

[gandalf]

This is not yet supported. You may find http://docs.cacti.net/node/435 useful until then.
Reinhard

[msw1970]

Hi

I've just started seeing this also, I've checked the size of cacti.log and it's nowhere near the 2Gb limit.

I've run the following

find / -type f -size +1000000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'

And this doesn't find any files close to 2Gb

Anyone have any ideas what else could be causing the message?

[msw1970]

Hi

I've just started seeing this also, I've checked the size of cacti.log and it's nowhere near the 2Gb limit.

I've run the following

find / -type f -size +1000000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'

And this doesn't find any files close to 2Gb

Anyone have any ideas what else could be causing the message?

Scratch that.... Just re-run the find command and did find a 2Gb file.... php_log. Deleted that and the messages have stopped.

[Howie]

Why does the poller crash when it can't write to the log, anyway?