Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 09:58:40 +0200
From: Christian Gennerat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux probs - logrotate

neil barnes a écrit :

> 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 :)
>

You have Mandrake 7.2, haven't you ?
How many files in /var/log/news ?
Upgrade your /etc/logrotate.d




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