[NTLUG:Discuss] logrotate gets stuck

Jay Urish j at unixwolf.net
Mon Jun 2 08:15:16 CDT 2003


It seems this is a common problem with redhat.

I had it happen to some boxen and I just killed syslogd and purged /var/log 
of EVERYTHING.
Then restart syslogd



At 08:04 AM 6/2/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>I have a box with Redhat 7.3 Apache and mod_perl. It has been running
>fine for about six months.
>
>Last week I noticed that logrotate is not completing. I had several
>instances of logrotate running. From the times shown in top, I noticed
>that there was one instance per day. I killed them all and they started
>the same thing again. Every day logrotate starts and never exits. The
>next day another instance is added and so on.
>
>Any ideas what is wrong and how to fix it?
>
>TIA
>Bobby
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