> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat May 26 15:55:21 2012 > Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 21:51:37 +0100 > From: Matthew Seaman <matt...@freebsd.org> > To: Jos Chrispijn <j...@webrz.net> > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: NewSysLog | Crontab > > On 26/05/2012 18:41, Jos Chrispijn wrote: > > Thanks, will investigate this... > > Keeping the list in the loop... > > > % df -ih /var/log > > > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on > > /dev/ada0p2 453G 5.8G 411G 1% 468k 29M 2% / > > One big partition for the whole OS? > > > % ls -laoR /var/log > > > > total 448 > > drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel - 1024 May 26 00:00 . > > drwxr-xr-x 23 root wheel - 512 May 17 19:57 .. > > drwx------ 2 root wheel - 512 May 22 23:30 .spamassassin > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 1 May 23 16:04 Minimalist.log > > -rw------- 1 root wheel - 60 May 26 00:00 all.log > > -rw------- 1 root wheel - 14 May 26 00:00 all.log.0.bz2 > > -rw------- 1 root wheel - 14 May 25 00:00 all.log.2.bz2 > > -rw------- 1 root wheel - 14 May 24 00:00 all.log.4.bz2 > > -rw------- 1 root wheel - 14 May 23 00:00 all.log.6.bz2 > > Oooh, fun. None of the obvious ideas were right, and this is looking > really quite mysterious. You've only got even numbered versions of > all.log backups, but they are spaced 1 day apart, which is the usual > recycle timing for all.log.
This is a clear-cut indication of _two_ processes running that rotate the logfiles. The first process to run works, and the second one bitches and moans, and -quits- (with the error shown about not being able to find the file original file to compress) *after* having rened the 1st back-up to the 2nd name. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"