[luau] Re: logrotate

[Nelson Garcia]

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" <jeschke at portcullis.uhh.hawaii.edu>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 7:30 PM
Subject: [luau] Re: logrotate


> | 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
> --
> Eric Jeschke
> http://cs.uhh.hawaii.edu/~jeschke
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