Hello Mikkel, On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:22:35 -0600 "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > wwp wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > > > seems that logrotate (logrotate-3.7.3-2.2.1) fails here for weeks, as I see > > abnormally growing logs. /var/log/messages shows: > > > > logrotate: ALERT exited abnormally with [1] > > > > > > I wonder if that's related, but launching `logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf` > > manually tells me: > > > > error: bad year 1932 for file /var/log/cups/access_log in state file /var/lib/logrotate.status > > > > > > I can see many lines in /var/lib/logrotate.status that show such 1932-date. > > This status file itself is dated from 1932-10-25. Any idea wow could I fix > > that w/o breaking anything? > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > I am not sure it will work, but what I would try is to backup > /var/lib/logrotate.status. Then create an empty file, and run logrotate. That seemed to work - I owe you few hundreds of kilobytes, thanks! Regards, -- wwp
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