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. ???

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

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.

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.