I have a problem right now with more than one machine and logrotate. I am finding that leaving a machine on means that some cron job or something (which I can't find with crontab) is firing up logrotate and then logrotate is never stopping.
Top is finding it using well into the 90s of % of cpu and if I don't kill it I end up with multiple instances each taking up 50% then 33% and on and on. What I want to know is how to stop this can I just kill logrotate? Who needs logs compressed anyway? Or should I try to stop logrotate from losing it's marbles? For the record grep logrotate /var/log/* gets: Binary file /var/log/pacct.5 matches Binary file /var/log/pacct.rpmsave matches /var/log/rpmpkgs:logrotate-3.6.4-1.i386.rpm /var/log/rpmpkgs.1:logrotate-3.6.4-1.i386.rpm /var/log/rpmpkgs.2:logrotate-3.6.4-1.i386.rpm /var/log/rpmpkgs.3:logrotate-3.6.4-1.i386.rpm /var/log/rpmpkgs.4:logrotate-3.6.4-1.i386.rpm which is not very useful.
