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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron messages...
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:11:23
Message-Id: 200911151145.28867.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron messages... by Alex Schuster
1 On Saturday 14 November 2009 16:53:24 Alex Schuster wrote:
2 > Jarry writes:
3 > > Hi, I'm getting strange mails from vixie-cron-4.1-r10:
4 > > ------------------
5 > > SUBJECT: Cron <root@obelix> test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons &&
6 > > /usr/sbin/run-crons
7 > >
8 > > error: kernel:9 unknown option 'compytruncate' -- ignoring line
9 > > error: kernel:12 unknown option 'endscript' -- ignoring line
10 > > ------------------
11 > >
12 > > What does it mean???
13 >
14 > I assume you are using logrotate, and have the /etc/logrotate.d/kernel
15 > file? I guess the 'compytruncate' is misspelled and should be
16 > 'copytruncate'. And 'endscript' is used after using 'prerotate' or
17 > 'postrotate', which you probably do not have.
18 >
19 > Something like that, I never used logrotate by myself. See the man page
20 > for more information.
21
22 Hmm ... how do you keep your log files under control?
23 --
24 Regards,
25 Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron messages... Eray Aslan <eray.aslan@×××××××.tr>
Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron messages... Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>