The cron daemon keeps emailing me informing me of an error. Problem is, I can't figure out why it is erroring out. This is the error message:

/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:

error: bad top line in state file /var/lib/logrotate.status

The top and only line in /var/lib/logrotate.status is a "1". When I removed the line, I got this error:

/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:

error: error reading top line of /var/lib/logrotate.status

So obviously, something needs to be in the top line of that file and it's not supposed to be a "1".

Any ideas on what it should be?

Thanks,
M

This is what I have at my production workstation (RH7.2)

Any idea on what generates this file? I recently moved all my logs to /usr/log and Im certain this is the reason. However, I thought I've changed everything to reflect this move.


Thanks!
M

Found this thread through a search, it is a bit late now but wanted to post an answer for posterity's sake.

Delete the empty logrotate.status and run logrotate again:

/etc/cron.daily/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf

The logrotate.status will be recreated automatically.

If you don't want the file here but in /usr/log, why don't you create a link?

Hi,
Even i faced the same problem. The simple solution for this is :
1> Take a back up of the logrotate.status file.
mv /var/lib/logrotate.status /var/lib/logrotate.status.bak

2> Run to logrotate sommand manually to regenerate this file again
logrotate -fv /etc/logrotate.conf

This should solve your problem.

Do let us know in case you face any problem.

Cheers

dawood