On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Tim wrote:
I've searched through the list archives and have been unable to find
anything that can shed some light on this issue for me. I have a base
fedora install that once a week when the log rotate happens runs out of
memory for some reason. The only package not in the fedora install I have
on the system currently is Dans Guardian.
System has 192 MB of ram and 256 mb of swap.
If I manually run the log rotate everything works fine, there must be
something else happening that I don't realize that is causing the memory
problems. I'm fresh out of ideas so any suggestions would be greatly
appreciated.
Tim
Check the list of files in /var/log. Some buggy packages may use wildcard
specs in their logrotate directives. That can lead to a boatload of files
as backups get rotated, and then those get rotated, ad nauseum. If you
spot files like foo.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2, you'll know you've been bitten
and you can bugzilla the offending package.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs