At 03:57 PM 05/29/01, Stephen Lawrence Jr. wrote:
>Hmm, the only problem I had on 7.1 servers was in the logrotate.d/syslog
>configuration. It was set like this:
>
>
>/var/log/mail/* {
>...
>}
>
>which is wrong.
>
>The correct entrie would be:
>
>/var/log/mail/errors {
>...
>}
>
>/var/log/mail/info {
>...
>}
>
>etc.etc.etc.
>
>
>
>The '/var/log/mail/*' was causing the previously compressed and rotated logs
>to be rotated once more, causing a whole slew of rotations of rotations of
>rotations of rotations, etc..
>
>Does this help?
Thanks, but I already figured that part out. I think this problem goes a
little deeper. A corrupt file or bad memory or some such.
>Scott Taylor wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have been going through the archives regarding the broken logrotate
> > script and see a few that have this same problem, but still can't find the
> > fix. Maybe I missed it.
> >
> > So far, I have cleaned out the bad /var/log/mail and news
> > directories. Updated logrotate and slocate and all the rest of LMdk7.1
> > updates and still the logrotate proc never stops. It is only happening on
> > one of three 7.1 servers, so I figure something is corrupt, but can't
> > figure out what. Any body have a fix for this?
> >
> > In case this helps: after a few minutes strace on logrotate shows these
> > lines over and over like it's in a forever loop:
> > 19779 mremap(0x4013d000, 606208, 606208, MREMAP_MAYMOVE) = 0x4013d000
> > 19779 time(NULL) = 991160911
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > --
> > Scott Taylor
> > Systems Administrator
> > DCT Chambers Trucking Ltd.
>
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Scott Taylor
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