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cron spam: <root@*> find /var/log/kafka -type f -not -name *.gz -a -ctime +1 -exec gzip {} \+

This is recurrent daily on various machines running kafka. Details on the affected files vary, but the typical email body is:

gzip: /var/log/kafka/kafka-request.log.gz already exists;       not overwritten
gzip: /var/log/kafka/controller.log.gz already exists;  not overwritten
gzip: /var/log/kafka/kafka-authorizer.log.gz already exists;    not overwritten

Migrated from T2269 (view on Phabricator)