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logrotate won't run - gives error

hi there, this is in regards to my server that has a 2.4.18-8 (Mandrake) kernel, no GUI.

Seeing as how my log files were 5 GB in size, I determined that cron wasn't running logrotate. So when I ran it manually, I got the following error.

error: syslog:17 duplicate log entry for /var/log/messages

I have no idea what this means. Here's my logrotate.conf:

Code:

# rotate log files weekly

weekly



# keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs

rotate 4



# 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 lastlog or wtmp -- we'll rotate them here

/var/log/wtmp {

    monthly

    create 0664 root utmp

    rotate 1

}



/var/log/lastlog {

    monthly

    rotate 1

}



# system-specific logs may be configured here

I dont see anything duplicated.

Where do i start? thanks. :)

Check /etc/logrotate.d/, there should be some individual files there. Maybe one of those has a duplicate entry.

Hope this helps.

um, nevermind. :o

I sure pondered this question for a long time, then right after posting, I rememered editing a file for a log parsing program. I did in fact made one entry twice.

The file in question was "/etc/logrotate.d/syslog" hence the error. (might have jogged my memory had the error contained the full path name instead of just the file name).

Oops. :o