On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 07:14:44PM +0100, M. Fioretti wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On a RH 8.0 PC, connected to the internet by dialup, I have found
> 68019 empty log files. I came to realize it when the dialup script
> said that it could not create lock in /var for lack of space. Since
> there *was* space, and I remembered reading somewhere that more than
> 10000 files per directory make ext3 choke, I looked around and found
> those files. Namely, the output of
>
> cd /var/
> ls -lrt log|grep vgetty|cat -n > /tmp/vgettystrange
>
> looks like this (last five lines, "compressed" for clarity):
>
> 68015 -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Mar 23 08:51 vgetty.log.ttyS0.1.1.1.4.4.4.1
> 68016 -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Mar 23 08:51 vgetty.log.ttyS0.1.1.1.4.4.4
> 68017 -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Mar 23 08:51 vgetty.log.ttyS0.1.1.1.4.4.4.2
> 68018 -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Mar 23 08:51 vgetty.log.ttyS0.1.1.1.4.4.4.1.1
> 68019 -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Mar 23 08:51 vgetty.log.ttyS0.1.1.2
>
> Owner and group are always root, I cut that to fit on one email line,
> as mentioned.
>
> Where do they come from? Any comment?
It comes from an error in the /etc/logrotate.d/vgetty file which
should change its contents from:
/var/log/vgetty.log.tty* {
nocompress
missingok
}
to:
/var/log/vgetty.log.ttyS0 {
nocompress
missingok
}
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