sonic-buildimage/files/scripts/core_cleanup.py
Danny Allen ba77de12ac [cron.d] Add cron job to periodically clean-up core files (#3449)
* [cron.d] Create cron job to periodically clean-up core files
* Create script to scan /var/core and clean-up older core files
* Create cron job to run clean-up script

Signed-off-by: Danny Allen <daall@microsoft.com>

* Update interval for running cron job

* Respond to feedback

* Change syslog id
2019-09-13 17:52:10 +00:00

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#!/usr/bin/env python
import syslog
import os
from collections import defaultdict
from datetime import datetime
SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER = 'core_cleanup.py'
CORE_FILE_DIR = os.path.basename(__file__)
MAX_CORE_FILES = 4
def log_info(msg):
syslog.openlog(SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER)
syslog.syslog(syslog.LOG_INFO, msg)
syslog.closelog()
def log_error(msg):
syslog.openlog(SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER)
syslog.syslog(syslog.LOG_ERR, msg)
syslog.closelog()
def main():
if os.getuid() != 0:
log_error('Root required to clean up core files')
return
log_info('Cleaning up core files')
core_files = [f for f in os.listdir(CORE_FILE_DIR) if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(CORE_FILE_DIR, f))]
core_files_by_process = defaultdict(list)
for f in core_files:
process = f.split('.')[0]
curr_files = core_files_by_process[process]
curr_files.append(f)
if len(curr_files) > MAX_CORE_FILES:
curr_files.sort(reverse = True, key = lambda x: datetime.utcfromtimestamp(int(x.split('.')[1])))
oldest_core = curr_files[MAX_CORE_FILES]
log_info('Deleting {}'.format(oldest_core))
try:
os.remove(os.path.join(CORE_FILE_DIR, oldest_core))
except:
log_error('Unexpected error occured trying to delete {}'.format(oldest_core))
core_files_by_process[process] = curr_files[0:MAX_CORE_FILES]
log_info('Finished cleaning up core files')
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()