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On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 6:57 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I am perplexed why box of mine will not logrotate system logs, which have now |
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> grown into gigs. kern.log, syslog, messages, etc. are eating up space |
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> unconstrained, to the point where the partition run out of it. |
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> Trying to run /etc/cron.daily/logrotate from a terminal does not show anything |
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> in messages, or syslog. |
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> Particulars below: |
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> # ls -la /etc/cron.daily/logrotate |
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> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 179 Feb 12 16:09 /etc/cron.daily/logrotate |
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> # cat /etc/cron.daily/logrotate |
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> #!/bin/sh |
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> /usr/bin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf |
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> EXITVALUE=$? |
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> if [ $EXITVALUE != 0 ]; then |
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> /usr/bin/logger -t logrotate "ALERT exited abnormally with [$EXITVALUE]" |
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> fi |
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> exit 0 |
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> This is an installation I have not really changed much from default settings. |
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> Comparing with other systems which work as expected I can't see anything |
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> amiss. How could I troubleshoot/fix this problem? |
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> -- |
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> Regards, |
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> Mick |
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I had a similar problem a while back, and Alex Corkwell suggested |
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removing the executable bit on /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron, which did |
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the trick for me. |
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See gentoo-user archives for an email exchange with 'portage summary |
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logs not rotated any more' as the subject for full details. |
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Hope this helps. |
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