Can't get logrotate to work

Riallin · 01-28-2010, 04:29 PM

Hey everyone,

Not sure if this is of the same problem as my other thread, so I posted a new one. Mods, please combine if it turns out to be related.

root@sloan:/var/log# ls -lah | sort -rn
total 68G
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sloan 286K 2010-01-27 18:22 lastlog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32K 2010-01-26 17:32 Xorg.0.log.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31K 2010-01-26 17:32 Xorg.0.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.6K 2010-01-26 17:31 shorewall-init.log.1.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010-01-26 17:31 dmesg.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 52K 2010-01-26 17:31 dmesg
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 9.6M 2010-01-28 11:28 syslog
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 52M 2010-01-27 07:35 syslog.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 49K 2010-01-28 11:26 daemon.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 2.6M 2010-01-26 17:37 syslog.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 23G 2010-01-28 11:28 kern.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 23G 2010-01-28 11:28 debug
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 23G 2010-01-28 11:28 bandwidth
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 22K 2010-01-28 11:27 messages
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 196K 2010-01-28 11:25 mail.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 196K 2010-01-28 11:25 mail.info
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 189K 2010-01-28 11:25 mail.warn
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 189K 2010-01-28 11:25 mail.err
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 130K 2010-01-28 11:25 auth.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 2010-01-26 17:37 user.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 2010-01-26 17:37 shorewall-init.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 2010-01-26 17:31 lpr.log
-rw------- 1 root root 0 2010-01-26 17:31 dmesg.new
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K 2010-01-28 11:24 .
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2010-01-26 17:31 news
drwxr-xr-x 2 root lp 4.0K 2010-01-28 07:35 cups
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4.0K 2009-11-04 09:51 ..
root@sloan:/var/log# logrotate kern.log
Segmentation fault
root@sloan:/var/log# logrotate debug
Segmentation fault
root@sloan:/var/log# logrotate bandwidth
Segmentation fault
root@sloan:/var/log# logrotate -f kern.log
Segmentation fault

My other thread is: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...4/#post3844157

neonsignal · 01-28-2010, 06:46 PM

Definitely related - your log files are 23 gigabytes in size, which is causing problems for logrotate. What is also odd is that these three files are all the same size.

Riallin · 01-28-2010, 07:17 PM

-rw-r----- 1 root adm 25817862671 2010-01-28 14:18 bandwidth
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 25759830430 2010-01-28 14:18 kern.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 25759828766 2010-01-28 14:18 debug

is an ls -la

close in size, but not identical.

neonsignal · 01-29-2010, 03:15 AM

If you don't care about the contents of the logs, then you can truncate them:

Code:

> /var/log/bandwidth
> /var/log/kern.log
> /var/log/debug

However, it would be worth head and tail-ing them first to see why they are so large; it indicates some other problem.