Cron.daily sends me a logrotate Kill usage message.
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usage: kill [ -s signal | -p ] [ -a ] pid ...
kill -l [ signal ]
usage: kill [ -s signal | -p ] [ -a ] pid ...
kill -l [ signal ]
My logrotate.conf file looks normal (see below)
This started after I restored the system from tape so it may be a permission problem. Although everything else seems to be running normally.
Any Ideas on what could cause this error?
David
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Listing of /etc/logrotate.conf
# see "man logrotate" for details
# rotate log files weekly
# DP 27/06/2003 Changed to daily
# weekly
daily
# keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs
# DP 27/06/2003 I think I need to change this to DAYS
# rotate 4
rotate 30
# create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
create
# uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
#compress
# RPM packages drop log rotation information into this directory
include /etc/logrotate.d
# no packages own wtmp -- we'll rotate them here
/var/log/wtmp {
monthly
create 0664 root utmp
rotate 1
}
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