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.
Thierry.