It should stop. What happens is the asterisk match the first mgetty file and made a backup. The next time the backup file got backed up itself. Then the backup of the backup got backed up. Then the backup of the backup of the backup got backed up. Then......
I don't believe there's any valid reason to have an asterisk in a logrotate.d file. They goofed. After you took out the asterisk, are you getting many many /var/log/mgetty* files again? You shouldn't -eric wood ----- Original Message ----- From: Billy Davis To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 9:56 AM Subject: Re: zillions of mgetty.log.ttyS4.1.1.1.1... messages Thanks for the reply Eric. I reviewed the mgetty file and found the astersik, and I see what you have changed. However, it seems to me that what ever problem caused these 'zillions' of files to be created, will still create them, or am I missing something? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
