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Hi Felix,</div>
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>From one of the recent Slurm user group meetings, the recommended way to logrotate the Slurm logs is to send SIGUSR2.</div>
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My logrotate entry is</div>
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/var/log/slurm/slurmctld.log {
<div> compress</div>
<div> missingok</div>
<div> nocopytruncate</div>
<div> nocreate</div>
<div> delaycompress</div>
<div> nomail</div>
<div> notifempty</div>
<div> noolddir</div>
<div> rotate 5</div>
<div> sharedscripts</div>
<div> size 5M</div>
<div> create 640 slurm root</div>
<div> postrotate</div>
<div> pkill -x --signal SIGUSR2 slurmctld</div>
<div> exit 0</div>
<div> endscript</div>
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And that seems to work fine for us</div>
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[root@spartan-ctl1 ~]# ls -la /var/log/slurm/
<div>total 7165648</div>
<div>drwxr-x--- 2 slurm slurm 243 Jul 26 16:27 .</div>
<div>drwxr-xr-x. 15 root root 4096 Jul 27 03:07 ..</div>
<div>-rw-r--r-- 1 slurm slurm 7251773874 Jul 27 22:40 joblog</div>
<div>-rw-r----- 1 slurm slurm 12189295 Jul 27 22:54 slurmctld.log</div>
<div>-rw-r----- 1 slurm slurm 2309659 Jul 22 03:37 slurmctld.log-20210722.gz</div>
<div>-rw-r----- 1 slurm slurm 2163985 Jul 23 03:49 slurmctld.log-20210723.gz</div>
<div>-rw-r----- 1 slurm slurm 2773294 Jul 24 03:31 slurmctld.log-20210724.gz</div>
<div>-rw-r----- 1 slurm slurm 1605171 Jul 25 03:32 slurmctld.log-20210725.gz</div>
<div>-rw-r----- 1 slurm slurm 10004202 Jul 26 03:43 slurmctld.log-20210726</div>
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-rw------- 1 slurm slurm 0 Feb 25 2019 slurmsched.log</div>
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Sean<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 27 July 2021 22:33<br>
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Hello<br>
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my slurmctld.log is 600 MB.<br>
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I am looking for a functional method to have log rotate system for slurmctld.log. There is none for slurm now on my system. I have slurm 20.02 on my system.<br>
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Is there any possibility?<br>
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Thank you<br>
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Felix<br>
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Dr. Eng. Farcas Felix<br>
National Institute of Research and Development of Isotopic and Molecular Technology,<br>
IT - Department - Cluj-Napoca, Romania<br>
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