> "Delagarza, Gilbert" wrote:
>
> What in the world is logrotate and why is it taking up so much memory
> and making my drive just run and run and run. I had this issue earlier
> this week where the server was just crawling. I noticed that logrotate
> was active twice taking up huge amounts of memory. I ended up
> rebooting the server to get it to stop. Now its back again.
> We have Linux Mandrake 7.0
There was a bug in an old version of logrotate that didn't show up until
a config file was populated with just the right configuration entry.
You have two options:
Easy: download logrotate updated rpm for your version of Mandrake
Manual:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog stop
rm -rf /var/log/mail/*
# go get a cup of coffee
rm -rf /var/log/news/*
# go get a refill of that coffee
vi /etc/logrotate.d/syslog
change the lines that say
/var/log/mail/*
/var/log/news/*
to
/var/log/mail/*log
/var/log/news/*log
/etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog start
Good luck!
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