Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 20:29:12
From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux probs - logrotate
Hi Skip,
All the dates in the folder look ok...I'm tempted just to empty the /var/log
directory and see what happens, but I don't know if anything actually *uses*
the files in there.
Neil
>From: Skip Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: linux probs - logrotate
>Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 09:48:25 -0700
>
>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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