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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Folks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">For my customer I have to verify the logger in its system, which is journald (241). For that I have written some tests that should verify if expired messages will been thrown out of the log. As you can see, the configuration
is set in that way that messages older than 12 months shall be removed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">[Journal]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Storage=persistent<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">#SyncIntervalSec=5m<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:red">MaxRetentionSec=12month<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">#TTYPath=/dev/console<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">#MaxLevelStore=debug<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The test does 5 steps:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US">With the help of command
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">date</span><span lang="EN-US"> the system clock is reset by 367 days, which is definitely more than 12 months, even in leap year.
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US">Send a message to logger.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US">Reset system clock to current time, which was stored before step 1.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US">Send another message to logger.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US">Synchronize the logger, to be sure all data are in the file system.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">What I expect to see is only the message that was sent after resetting the system clock (green text). In fact, I can see the expired message (red text) as well (today is 2021-07-08). Is this correct?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Beside this, I have observed, that modifying the time by command
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">date</span><span lang="EN-US"> will trigger a rotation. Is this observation correct?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Greeting from Berlin,<br>
Andreas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">developer@debianVM ../loggerlib/build/integration_test/test (git)-[ak/journal] %
<b>journalctl -n 400 --no-pager -o short-iso</b> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">-- Logs begin at Mon
<b>2020-07-06</b> 15:23:50 CEST, end at Thu 2021-07-08 16:23:48 CEST. --<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">2021-07-08T15:23:50+0200 debianVM systemd-journald[286]: System journal (/var/log/journal/c1223bdbe6484166aa9af858c392a7e0) is 40.0M, max 500.0M, 460.0M free.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:red">2020-07-06</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:red">T15:23:50+0200 debianVM LoggerLib_sw_integration_test[4941]:
Expired Message<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">2021-07-08T15:23:50+0200 debianVM systemd[1]: Starting Rotate log files...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">2021-07-08T15:23:50+0200 debianVM anacron[4956]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2021-07-08<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">2021-07-08T15:23:50+0200 debianVM systemd[1]: Starting Daily apt download activities...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">2021-07-08T15:23:50+0200 debianVM anacron[4956]: Normal exit (0 jobs run)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#00B050">2021-07-08</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#00B050">T15:23:50+0200 debianVM LoggerLib_sw_integration_test[4941]:
Test Message No.0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">2021-07-08T15:23:50+0200 debianVM systemd[1]: Starting Daily man-db regeneration...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">2021-07-08T15:23:50+0200 debianVM systemd[1]: Started Run anacron jobs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">2021-07-08T15:23:50+0200 debianVM systemd[1]: anacron.service: Succeeded.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">2021-07-08T15:23:50+0200 debianVM sudo[4940]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">2021-07-08T15:23:50+0200 debianVM systemd[1]: logrotate.service: Succeeded.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">2021-07-08T15:23:50+0200 debianVM systemd[1]: Started Rotate log files.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">2021-07-08T15:23:50+0200 debianVM systemd[1]: man-db.service: Succeeded.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">2021-07-08T15:23:50+0200 debianVM systemd[1]: Started Daily man-db regeneration.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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