On  6 Jan, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>  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 directory with 10000+ 
>  of these blighters. 
>   
>  Never did investigate further ... just upgraded to redhat8. 

All RH 7.3 systems suffer that problem, AFAIK.

Peter Allworth wrote:
> 
> The /var/log/mailman problem seems to be with the RedHat 7.3 release only.
> Check /etc/logrotate.d/mailman. If it's not there or doesn't contain
> stupid wildcards, you're probably OK.

John Rosauer wrote:

> Yes, to fix it do two things:
> 
>       rm -f /var/log/mailman/*
>       ed -  /var/lib/logrotate.status <<-\!
>               g/mailman/d
>               w
>               q
>       !
>       
> > JR can probably confirm whether 7.2 is safe.
> 
> yep, mailman is not in this distribution :)
> 
> john


luke

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