Re: [SLUG] Funny logrotate behaviour

2003-01-06 Thread mlh
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 05:40:23PM +1100, Bernhard Lüder wrote: Why would logrotate create something like this? ./mgetty.log.ttyS0.4.4.4.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 I got this on redhat7.3. I found my machine running really sluggish one time, and checked to find logrotate taking up 90+% cpu. And the logs

RE: [SLUG] Funny logrotate behaviour

2003-01-06 Thread Michael Fox
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 05:40:23PM +1100, Bernhard Lüder wrote: Why would logrotate create something like this? ./mgetty.log.ttyS0.4.4.4.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 I got this on redhat7.3. I found my machine running really sluggish one time, and checked to find logrotate taking up 90+% cpu. And

Re: [SLUG] Funny logrotate behaviour

2003-01-06 Thread scott
It is a bug with the standard Redhat. 7.3 rpms. The mgetty file in /etc/logrotate.d contains: /var/log/mgetty.log.tty* I guess the reason for this is to rotate the modem logs on all serial ports, but it wasn't well thought through. I just changed mine to /var/log/mgetty.log.ttyS1 (as I only use

[SLUG] Funny logrotate behaviour

2003-01-05 Thread Bernhard Lüder
Why would logrotate create something like this? ./mgetty.log.ttyS0.4.4.4.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Regards Bernhard -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Funny logrotate behaviour

2003-01-05 Thread Peter Hardy
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 17:40:23 +1100 Bernhard Lüder wrote: Why would logrotate create something like this? ./mgetty.log.ttyS0.4.4.4.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Because you've got weird rules governing what files logrotate rotates? Looks like it rotates mgetty.log.ttyS0 to mgetty.log.ttyS0.1, then rotates