Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 08:18:53
From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux probs - logrotate
>Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 09:58:40 +0200
>From: Christian Gennerat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: linux probs - logrotate
>
>neil barnes a �crit :
>
> > 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
>
Christian,
Mandrake 7.1 on the Lib...but you're right - the culprits are /var/log/news
and /var/log/mail - the *directory* entries were 2.2M and 3.4M each, and
'ls' took nearly 30 minutes just thinking about it before it listed the
contents.
There are too many files for rm * to kill :( so I've been through it a bit
at a time and erased the directories (hey, it only took a couple of hours!)
Now syslog complains it can't find the files on startup, let's see what
happens!
Is there a known problem with the logrotate of that vintage? I was just
about to have a look at the config file and see if that made any sense to
me. (Probably it doesn't)
Neil
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