On Saturday 21 June 2008 21:16:59 Matthias Kilian wrote: > On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 08:42:31PM +0000, Pollywog wrote: > > > Nah, this warning is triggered when a pid file is specified in > > > newsyslog.conf and the kill(2) on the pid fails. > > > > Thanks, I will check my config file. > > Better watch out for a pid file left over from a crash. And run > newsyslog -nv, which may help to find the bad guy.
My config file had two pid's mentioned that do not exist, so I commented them out and then I ran 'newsyslog -nv' /var/cron/log <99Z>: size (KB): 270.48 [1000] --> skipping /var/log/authlog <99Z>: age (hr): 31 [168] --> skipping /var/log/daemon <99Z>: size (KB): 431.02 [1000] --> skipping /var/log/lpd-errs <7Z>: size (KB): 0.00 [10] --> skipping /var/log/maillog <99Z>: age (hr): 5 [24] --> skipping /var/log/messages <99Z>: size (KB): 398.49 [1000] --> skipping /var/log/secure <7Z>: age (hr): 292 [168] --> skipping /var/log/wtmp <7ZB>: age (hr): 82 [168] --> skipping /var/log/xferlog <7Z>: size (KB): 0.00 [250] --> skipping /var/log/pflog <99ZB>: size (KB): 327.22 [1000] --> skipping /var/log/clamd.log <99Z>: size (KB): 1.68 [1000] age (hr): 23 [168] --> skipping /var/log/freshclam.log <99Z>: size (KB): 71.21 [1000] age (hr): 87 [168] --> skipping /var/squid/logs/access.log <99Z>: size (KB): 0.38 [10000] age (hr): 121 [168] --> skipping /var/squid/logs/store.log <99Z>: size (KB): 0.06 [10000] age (hr): 10 [168] --> skipping /var/squid/logs/cache.log <99Z>: size (KB): 0.06 [10000] age (hr): 26 [168] --> skipping /var/log/spamd.log <99Z>: size (KB): 0.00 [25000] age (hr): -1 [168] --> skipping /var/log/named.log <99Z>: size (KB): 6.10 [5000] age (hr): 24 [168] --> skipping /var/log/sockd.log <99Z>: size (KB): 0.78 [50000] age (hr): 11 [168] --> skipping
