[olug] My inodes ran out

Dave Hull dphull at insipid.com
Mon Dec 16 17:46:32 UTC 2002


On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Mike Peterson wrote:

> The mailman logrotate file on my systems is like this
> 
> /var/log/mailman/* (
>      missingok
> }
> 
> It rotates but never deletes any files.

That's what our's used to be too. When we changed it to what's below the files 
started going away via logrotate.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Hull" <dphull at insipid.com>
> To: <olug at olug.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 10:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [olug] My inodes ran out

> > [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
> > }

-- 
Dave Hull
http://insipid.com

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." 
   -- Thomas Jefferson, Proposed Virginia Constitution, 1776 




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