Rsyslog don't respect disk quota limit

gorekBoy · 11-22-2019, 08:51 AM

Hi everybody

I setup rsyslog on my Debian 8 to save logs from network devices to files owned by user named netdev (for example

)

Because network devices admins often start debug mode on devices and I worry about disk fill up I set disk quota for this user.

But after user netdev exceed disk quota logs files still growing up

Does anyone know why?

Quota info for netdev user:

Code:

# quota -vs netdev

Disk quotas for user netdev (uid 1001):
     Filesystem   space    quota    limit   grace   files   quota   limit   grace
      /dev/dm-0   3680K*   2000K    3500K   7 days      3       0       0

ehartman · 11-22-2019, 12:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gorekBoy

But after user netdev exceed disk quota logs files still growing up

As rsyslog runs as root it is NOT restricted by a user quota. Not even for the user netdev