logrotate stills runs "forever". something is very wrong. jdrash wrote: > > I am deleting /var/log/news as I type this. It is taking a while. I > don't even run a news server and can't recall when I last looked in this > directory. > > thx for the idea I'll see it this clears things up > > jim drash > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Stefan van der Eijk wrote: > > > > > logrotate 3.3-8mdk (and 6mdk for that matter), run forever and never > > > end. I have this set up as part of my /etc/cron.daily Running it > > > with "-d" I get the "reading" the various configs and lots of disk I/O. > > > logrotate is taking 94% of the CPU and 20% of memory. I had not noticed > > > this until a few days ago when I had some very slow responses on the > > > console. I had 3 running versions of logrotate. Presumably, the last the > > > daily runs. > > > > > > What is going on? > > Could you give a listing of your /var/log/news directory? It made a huge > > mess of that directory on my box. To _remove_ /var/log/news (rm -rf > > /var/log/news) took about an hour... > > > > Stefan
