Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Zimbra ZCS6.0.2 server statistics failing

Ran into a problem where the Server Statistics in the Monitoring tab of the admin view were giving an error. The view uses the information written to /var/log/zimbra-stats.log however that file wasn't rotating correctly at night causing the statistics view to fail.

There were 2 issues at work here. For one, the logrotate scripts were using the killall command, which wasn't present on the system (a Debian 5.0.3 with just the Standard tasksel). Reported as Bug 43079. The other issue was that the killall parameters used syslogd, whereas debian lenny uses rsyslogd, which killall won't rightfully touch, reported as Bug 43081.

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