[luau] Re: logrotate

[Eric Jeschke]

| Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 02:25:07 +0000
| From: Charles Lockhart <lockhart at jeans.ifa.hawaii.edu>
| 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
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Eric Jeschke
http://cs.uhh.hawaii.edu/~jeschke