Cacti error: file size limit exeeded

I work with cacti to monitorize sensors and temperature. The other day I got an error related with file size limit. The error message is similar to this:

/bin/bash: line 1: 23691 File size limit exceededphp /var/www/html/cacti/poller.php > /dev/null 2>

This occurs because the cati log file has exceeded the limit. To solve this[1], we can include the cacti log file in logrotate. So we need logrotate installed in our system. In resume we must do the following steps:

1. We create a new logrotate file for cacti. 

# vim  /etc/logrotate.d/cacti

2. Add the followings lines:

/var/www/html/cacti/log/cacti.log { # keep two weeks of versions online rotate 14 # rotate the log each day daily # compress the logs compress # create new file with the correct user/group attributes create 644 apache apache # add a YYYYMMDD extension instead of a number dateext }

3. Then, we force the rotation:

# logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.conf

References

[1] http://www.question-defense.com/2008/09/29/how-to-rotate-the-cacti-logs-file-cactilog
[2] Logrotate manual: http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/logrotate8.html