Logrotate no longer works..."Too Many Open Files"

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 18:48 -0400, Mike Burger wrote:
> My named, maillog and messages logs have never rotated on a daily basis,
> before.

Are they actually being rotated?  Or are they just being checked?  My
maillog and syslog entries in /etc/logrotate.d don't have any time
designators, so they should go by the default in /etc/logrotate.conf.
In my case, that says "weekly".  Yours should be the same.  But the
logrotate job runs daily.  

Logrotate keeps last-rotated dates in /var/lib/logrotate.status.  If you
have the runaway rotation problem (see my other post in this thread),
it's possible that that's corrupted.

> 
> And no, it wasn't...my apologies...I usually do better.  I can only note
> that my 2 month old was crying as I wrote the second message, and forgot
> to trim it down before sending it.

Accepted 8^).

> 
> > On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 08:52 -0400, Mike Burger wrote:
> >> I should also point out that logrotate, although listed in cron.daily,
> >> used to only rotate the logs on Sunday mornings.  Now it tries to rotate
> >> them every day...yet another unexpected behavior.
> >>
> >
> > Most logs are rotated weekly, but some are not.  See the individual
> > specs in /etc/logrotate.d.
> >
> > Was quoting your *entire* previous message strictly necessary?