[Bro-Dev] [archive log failure]

Aashish Sharma asharma at lbl.gov
Mon Oct 3 12:11:50 PDT 2016


I see notifications as following: 

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Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 11:54:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: 
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Subject: [bro-cluster] archive log failure

Unable to archive one or more logs in directory:
/usr/local/bro/spool/tmp/post-terminate-worker-2016-10-03-09-40-35-36665
Check the post-terminate.out file in that directory for any error messages.
-- 
[Automatically generated.]

But then there is no spool/tmp/post-terminate-* 

However, in my /usr/local/bro/logs directory I see these folders emerge:

drwxr-xr-x    2 bro  bro   512B Oct  3 11:54 20rk-5-9
drwxr-xr-x    2 bro  bro   512B Oct  3 11:54 20rk-5-5
drwxr-xr-x    2 bro  bro   512B Oct  3 11:54 20rk-5-8
drwxr-xr-x    2 bro  bro   512B Oct  3 11:54 20rk-5-7
drwxr-xr-x    2 bro  bro   512B Oct  3 11:54 20rk-5-10
drwxr-xr-x    2 bro  bro   512B Oct  3 11:54 20rk-5-4
drwxr-xr-x    2 bro  bro   512B Oct  3 11:54 20rk-5-3
drwxr-xr-x    2 bro  bro   512B Oct  3 11:54 20rk-5-2
drwxr-xr-x    2 bro  bro   512B Oct  3 11:54 20rk-5-1
drwxr-xr-x    2 bro  bro   512B Oct  3 11:54 20rk-5-6
drwxr-xr-x    2 bro  bro   512B Oct  3 11:54 20ox-5-
drwxr-xr-x    2 bro  bro   6.5k Oct  3 11:56 2016-10-03
drwxr-xr-x    2 bro  bro   512B Oct  3 12:01 20na--

Now, I do use the followign setting in broctl.cfg:

# change log naming
MakeArchiveName = /usr/local/bro-cpp/common/scripts/makelocal-archivename-2.1

However above been there forever and I don't recall these archive failure messages or these directories show up until I moved to : bro version 2.5-beta-debug

Aashish 


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