On Saturday 09 August 2008, Mick wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have noticed that the log files on a box of mine are getting larger than
> expected.  I ran logrotate by hand to see if I get any errors and this came
> up:
>
> # logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.conf
> error: line too long in state file /var/lib/logrotate.status
> # ls -la /var/lib/logrotate.status
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 360448 Dec  9  2007 /var/lib/logrotate.status
>
> Can you explain it?  Should I just remove it before I run logrotate again?

Who knows, perhaps the file in questions had been corrupted.  I moved it and 
logrotate completed without errors.
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Regards,
Mick

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