I had the same problem when I was running Mandrake 7.2. Had so many files that I couldn't even run ls, rm, etc. There was a race conditon in the logrotate script called as a cron job that I thought that I had caused by messing around with it. Sorry to say that I forgot how I fixed it and I don't have that box around any more. I hope that helps. Nelson
----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Jeschke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 7:30 PM Subject: [luau] Re: logrotate > | Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 02:25:07 +0000 > | From: Charles Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | Subject: [luau] logrotate > | > | I've been noticing multiple instances of logrotate running on my machine > | eating up >90% of the cpu. Does that sound apropriate, because it seems > | wierd to me? > | > | -Charles > > This is a timely note because the same thing was happening on my > machine. When I looked in /var/log there were countless versions of a > vgetty log. It's as though there was a bug in logrotate that caused it > to fork multiple versions of the log; these then forked and so on in an > exponential manner until there were literally hundreds of thousands of > files in the directory. > > I removed those particular vgetty logs and so far everything seems back > to normal. I'd be interested to know if you find out anything else > though... > > --Eric > -- > Eric Jeschke > http://cs.uhh.hawaii.edu/~jeschke > > _______________________________________________ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau
