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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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Regards, |
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Mick |
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