Catastrophic Zimbra Meltdown Over Dinky Missing Log Files
Upon restarting a Zimbra instance this morning:
Starting ldap...Done. Starting zmconfigd...Done. Starting logger...Failed. Starting logswatch...failed. Starting mailbox...Done. Starting antispam...Done. Starting antivirus...Done. Starting snmp...Done. Starting spell...Done. Starting mta...Done. Starting stats...Done.
It was worse than that.
# su - zimbra $ zmcontrol status Host mx.drlogick.com antispam Running antivirus Running ldap Running logger Stopped zmlogswatchctl is not running mailbox Running mta Running snmp Stopped zmswatch is not running. spell Running stats Running zmconfigd Running
It took me some time and frustration to find these and figure it out:
$ cat /opt/zimbra/log/zmswatch.out Error opening /var/log/zimbra.log: No such file or directory at /opt/zimbra/data/tmp/.swatch_script.6212 line 98. $ cat /opt/zimbra/log/zmlogswatch.out Error opening /var/log/zimbra-stats.log: No such file or directory at /opt/zimbra/data/tmp/.swatch_script.5784 line 92.
Substitute with zcat, if like in my situation these lines are actually hidden in a logrotated file.
The problem is that I had cleared out my /var/log as the available root fs space dwindled. Apparently Zimbra can't survive without these two log files. Re-create them then restart zimbra:
# touch /var/log/zimbra-stats.log # touch /var/log/zimbra.log # chown zimbra: /var/log/zimbra-stats.log # chown zimbra: /var/log/zimbra.log
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