[olug] My inodes ran out

[Mike Peterson]

The mailman logrotate file on my systems is like this

/var/log/mailman/* (
     missingok
}

It rotates but never deletes any files.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Hull" <dphull at insipid.com>
To: <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: [olug] My inodes ran out


> On 16 Dec 2002, Trent Melcher wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 09:34, Mike Peterson wrote:
> > > Watch your Redhat 7.3 systems closely.
> > >
> > > On the 2 out of 3 systems mentioned above I found that the
> > > /var/log/mailman error log extension names keep getting longer and
> > > even though logrotate is supposed to run weekly, the number of empty
> > > error log files exceeded 10,000 after less than 6 months of the system
> > > running.
>
> Does your /etc/logrotate.d/mailman file look like this:
>
> [root at kohi root]# cat /etc/logrotate.d/mailman
> /var/log/mailman/bounce {
>     missingok
> }
> /var/log/mailman/digest {
>     missingok
> }
> /var/log/mailman/error {
>     missingok
> }
> /var/log/mailman/post {
>     missingok
> }
> /var/log/mailman/smtp-failure {
>     missingok
> }
> /var/log/mailman/locks {
>     missingok
> }
> /var/log/mailman/fromusenet {
>     missingok
> }
> /var/log/mailman/subscribe {
>     missingok
> }
> /var/log/mailman/vette {
>     missingok
> }
>
>
>
> We had the same problem you describe on a system running mailman and
changed
> this file to match what was running on another box and it started actually
> rotating these error logs, whereas before the change they were sticking
around
> until we went in and deleted them manually.
>
> --
> Dave Hull
> http://insipid.com
>
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