Thierry SAURA a �crit :
> I have a problem with lograte and two rules :
> /var/log/mail/* {
> rotate 5
> weekly
> postrotate
> /usr/bin/killall -HUP syslogd
> endscript
> }
>
> /var/log/news/* {
> rotate 5
> weekly
> postrotate
> /usr/bin/killall -HUP syslogd
> endscript
> }
>
> For exemple, in mail directory, you have before the rotation :
> mail.err mail.info mail.warn
>
> after the first rotation :
> mail.err mail.info mail.warn
> mail.err.1.gz mail.info.1.gz mail.warn.1.gz
>
> after the seconf rotation :
> mail.err mail.info mail.warn
> mail.err.1.gz mail.info.1.gz mail.warn.1.gz
> mail.err.2.gz mail.info.2.gz mail.warn.2.gz
> mail.err.1.gz.1.gz mail.info.1.gz.1.gz mail.warn.1.gz.1.gz
>
> I let you imagine how many files are created after several rotations.
> I rewrite rules to not have the problem ...
>
> somebody has an idea about where the problem comes from ? bad rules ?
> logrotate bug ?
>
> Before discovering the problem, slocate and logrotate need time to process
> (more than 120 000 file in /var/log/news and /var/log/mail) and i loose
> 400 Mo of disk space.
>
Not new. The problem exists in 7.1 with logrotate-3.3-5mdk
Change the rules with
/var/log/mail/mail.err {
rotate 5
weekly
postrotate
/usr/bin/killall -HUP syslogd
endscript
}
/var/log/mail/mail.info {
rotate 5
weekly
postrotate
/usr/bin/killall -HUP syslogd
endscript
}
/var/log/mail/mail.warn {
rotate 5
weekly
postrotate
/usr/bin/killall -HUP syslogd
endscript
}
/var/log/news/news.crit {
rotate 5
weekly
postrotate
/usr/bin/killall -HUP syslogd
endscript
}
/var/log/news/news.notice {
rotate 5
weekly
postrotate
/usr/bin/killall -HUP syslogd
endscript
}
/var/log/news/news.err {
rotate 5
weekly
postrotate
/usr/bin/killall -HUP syslogd
endscript
}
