On July 12, 2004 10:42 am, glenn wrote: > Hi, Guys - Since I made a fresh install of RHEL-AS3, logrotate > doesn't work, and my logs are getting monstrous. In > /var/log/messages, there is this, every day at 4:02:09: > > "logrotate: ALERT exited abnormally with [1]" > > Logrotate.conf looks the same as it does on another server, as do > the files in /etc/logrotate.d. What could the problem be? > Thanks. -G. >Hi, >Have a look at bugzilla. There is a Fedorsa logrotate issue that >sounds like >it may be the same. >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=122911 > >-- >Pete Nesbitt, rhce Pete - Nope, that wasn't it, but it the bug report gave me the bright idea of running logrotate from a command line: /usr/bin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf And that produced an error message that led to the solution. Logrotate was trying to change the permissions on a file for a user (named) that does not exist on this machine (long story there). I just removed /etc/logrotate.d/named and problem was solved. Thanks. -G. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
