FC5: logrotate failure (inconsistent date in logrotate.status)
Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Mon Feb 26 16:22:35 UTC 2007
wwp wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>
> seems that logrotate (logrotate-3.7.3-2.2.1) fails here for weeks, as I see
> abnormally growing logs. /var/log/messages shows:
>
> logrotate: ALERT exited abnormally with [1]
>
>
> I wonder if that's related, but launching `logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf`
> manually tells me:
>
> error: bad year 1932 for file /var/log/cups/access_log in state file /var/lib/logrotate.status
>
>
> I can see many lines in /var/lib/logrotate.status that show such 1932-date.
> This status file itself is dated from 1932-10-25. Any idea wow could I fix
> that w/o breaking anything?
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
I am not sure it will work, but what I would try is to backup
/var/lib/logrotate.status. Then create an empty file, and run logrotate.
mv /var/lib/logrotate.status /var/lib/logrotate.status.backup
touch /var/lib/logrotate.status
logrotate
Mikkel
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