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F5 | 867253

Systemd not deleting user journals

Last update date:

4/26/2024

Affected products:

BIG-IP

BIG-IP TMOS

Affected releases:

14.0.0

14.0.0.1

14.0.0.2

14.0.0.3

14.0.0.4

14.0.0.5

14.0.1

14.0.1.1

14.1.0

14.1.0.1

14.1.0.2

14.1.0.3

Fixed releases:

No fixed releases provided.

Description:

When setting 'SystemMaxUse' to any value, systemd does not honor this limit, and the specified size is exceeded. ... Journald filling up the file system. ... These journals are allocated with a minimum size of 4MiB and are not removed when the log entries age-out. ... Conditions ... Using a non-TMOS user account with external authentication permission. ... Note: Systemd-journald is configured to create a user journal for every remote user that logs into the BIG-IP system. ... Workaround ... Option 1: To immediately free up space, manually remove per-user journal logs from the following location: /var/log/journal/*/user-* Option 2: To prevent the system from creating these journal files going forward: 1. ... Edit /etc/systemd/journald.conf and add the following at the bottom of the file: SplitMode=none 2. ... Delete the existing user journal files from /var/log # rm /var/log/journal/*/user-* Note: -- You must apply this workaround separately to each blade of a VIPRION or vCMP guest r...

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