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.