How large do the Novell Cluster Service logs get in /var/opt/novell/log/ncs/*.out

Document ID:7009206
Creation Date:19-Aug-2011
Modified Date:27-Apr-2012
- Micro Focus Products:
  Cluster Services
  Open Enterprise Server

Environment

Novell Cluster Services 1.8.4
Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 (OES 2) Linux Support Pack 3

Situation

Question: Is there a recommended process to cleanup the "*.out" files in the /var/opt/novell/log/ncs/ directory?

Question: When is it safe to manually remove them?

Resolution

The /var/opt/novell/log/ncs/*.out files are limited to 12000 lines, once they hit this size it will keep the most recent 6000 lines and remove the rest.

The most recent activity is appended to the end of the log.

If the logs need to be deleted you can do that at any time the next time the resource is onlined/offlined/monitored on that node they will be recreated.