i was able to solve the problem by removing the state-file of logrotate rm /var/lib/logrotate/status
regards, manuel On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:34:08 +0200, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > recently i've been experiencing problems with logrotate, each time it runs > it > gets kinda stuck and eats up the systems cpu for days without finishing (i > don't have that many/big logfiles to rotate) > > the output of "logrotate -d -v /etc/logrotate.conf" just stops at "reading > config info for /var/log/btmp" > > the logrotate configuration for /var/log/btmp looks like this: >> /var/log/btmp { >> missingok >> monthly >> create 0660 root utmp >> rotate 1 >> } > > when i run strace on the logrotate pid i get the following message > appearing > over and over again.. >> stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2211, ...}) = 0 > > logrotate is running in a linux-vserver-guest > version: logrotate-3.7.1-5 > kernel: 2.6.26-2-vserver-686 #1 SMP Wed Feb 10 10:39:33 UTC 2010 i686 > GNU/Linux > > i can't really tell what time it has stopped working and what changed at > that > moment, but it has been working for a while before. > > thanks in advice > > regards, > manuel hofer > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
