Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 09:45:05 -0700
From: Skip Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux probs - logrotate
> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 16:07:02
> From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: linux probs - logrotate
>
> One for the linux types please - I've noticed my CT50 turning itself off
> when left running linux overnight (no particular reason to leave it on, just
> too lazy to press the 'off' button). It turns out that logrotate is running
> as a cron job and working so hard for so long as to overheat the machine if
> I have the network card in.
>
> It's running at 95%+ for three hours (!!!) and there's only about 2 meg of
> files in /var/logs. I know nothing about logrotate except that it should be
> compressing old log files...but three hours seems excessive :)
logrotate should not put much of a load on your system, it should not take
more than a minute to rotate 2meg of logs. The only thing that I can think
of that might cause a problem is if you have a clock skew problem
(your system clock is sometime in the past, BEFORE the log files were created).
That might confuse logrotate enough that it gets stuck -- just a guess.
Skip
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