Daily cronjob failure
 

Since some time I get a daily failure-message which says:

[begin]
running daily cronjob scripts

SCRIPT: clean_catman, OK.
SCRIPT: do_mandb, OK.
SCRIPT: logrotate exited with RETURNCODE = 1.
SCRIPT: ouput (stdout && stderr) follows

error: error reading top line of /var/lib/logrotate.status
SCRIPT: logrotate
------- END OF OUTPUT


SCRIPT: suse.de-backup-rc.config, OK.
SCRIPT: suse.de-backup-rpmdb, OK.
SCRIPT: suse.de-check-battery, OK.
SCRIPT: suse.de-clean-tmp, OK.
SCRIPT: suse.de-clean-vi, OK.
SCRIPT: suse.de-cron-local, OK.
[end]

when I look into /var/lib/logrotate.status, it's empty. ??? :scratch:

Until now it doesn't cause any problems... Any suggestions?
Thanks. A.

Well, on my system it's

/var/lib/logrotate/status

not

/var/lib/logrotate.status

Does that shed some light?

Cheers,
Tink

Too often?
 

The error probably means that logrotate thinks that you are telling it to rotate logs more frequently than it deems necessary. Take a look at man logrotate.

here's what my logrotate.status looks like
 

I used to get the same failure on one of my systems. Luckily, I had another Suse 8.0 system. Here is what my "logrotate.status" looks like:

logrotate state -- version 2
"/var/log/wtmp" 2003-7-22
"/var/log/httpd/access_log" 2003-7-22
"/var/log/httpd/error_log" 2003-7-21
"/var/log/radwtmp" 2003-3-23
"/var/log/mail" 2003-7-19
"/var/log/warn" 2003-7-19
"/var/log/messages" 2003-7-19
"/var/log/localmessages" 2003-7-20
"/var/log/firewall" 2003-7-22
"/var/lib/mysql/mysql.log" 2003-7-10


Hope this helps.