junior developer raises an issue saying that there's an application deployment error on one of their dev clusters.

sysadmin asks them to go back and look at the error logs and come back with the problem.

they come back saying, "No space left on device"

sysadmin takes a look at server. finds this :

Who needs log rotation?

forget logrotate, I face-palmed when I saw that they had 19k error log files.

That’s pure gold. Let’s not aggregate our logs shall we?

Thanks OP I just learned a new long option for sort.

Time to install storage quotas for those devs.. also why didn't this get caught earlier?

@Condor They already do have storage quotas. Especially since this was a dev machine. That's a 10GB disk that they filled up.

Regarding why we didn't catch this earlier - this happened a period of 5 days. And since this was a dev machine, we really don't care.

Do you want to see an aggregation of the error log files by date?