[olug] My inodes ran out

[Dave Hull]

On 16 Dec 2002, Trent Melcher wrote:

> On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 09:34, Mike Peterson wrote:
> > Watch your Redhat 7.3 systems closely.
> >  
> > On the 2 out of 3 systems mentioned above I found that the
> > /var/log/mailman error log extension names keep getting longer and
> > even though logrotate is supposed to run weekly, the number of empty
> > error log files exceeded 10,000 after less than 6 months of the system
> > running.

Does your /etc/logrotate.d/mailman file look like this:

[root at kohi root]# cat /etc/logrotate.d/mailman 
/var/log/mailman/bounce {
    missingok
}
/var/log/mailman/digest {
    missingok
}
/var/log/mailman/error {
    missingok
}
/var/log/mailman/post {
    missingok
}
/var/log/mailman/smtp-failure {
    missingok
}
/var/log/mailman/locks {
    missingok
}
/var/log/mailman/fromusenet {
    missingok
}
/var/log/mailman/subscribe {
    missingok
}
/var/log/mailman/vette {
    missingok
}



We had the same problem you describe on a system running mailman and changed 
this file to match what was running on another box and it started actually 
rotating these error logs, whereas before the change they were sticking around 
until we went in and deleted them manually.

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