Re: Logrotate: no file context?

[Matthew Saltzman <mjs ces clemson edu>]

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Steve Buehler wrote:

> At 05:46 AM 7/24/2005, you wrote:
> > Lately, logrotate has been failing with the following error messages.
> > Indeed, "ls --context /var/log/*" indicates that these files have blank 
> > contexts.  How did they get that way, and how can I get them back?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > error: error getting file context /var/log/cups/error_log: No data 
> > available
> > error: error getting file context /var/log/httpd/access_log: No data 
> > available
> <----snip--->
> Check your hard drive space available.  One cause that your log files could 
> be getting emptied out is that your hard drive or partition that /var/log is 
> on is full.  If your HD is full, when it goes to write to a file, it can end 
> up emptying them out instead because it can't actually write to them having 
> no space on the partition left.  I am sure there are other reasons this could 
> happen too, but it happened to us on one of our machines this way in the 
> past.

It's not that the *files* are empty, it's that the SELinux *contexts* are 
empty.  There's plenty of space on the drive.

But thanks for the suggestion.




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		Matthew Saltzman

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