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by **Scott Ellswor** » Tue, 22 Apr 1997 04:00:00

Howdy all.

A rather bizzare problem showed up at the end of March. I am using Logrotate
with my RedHat 4.1 distribution, and it seems to work quite nicely.

At the end of March, a number of files ended up with dates in the status file
of 3-31-97, which was then followed by error messages complaining about an
illegal date. This killed logrotate cold.

It was easy to fix - I updated the dates to mid-april, and ran logortate
again. We are now happy, and no problems have come up. I am merely a tad
surprised that others did not have this problem, if it is an actual problem,
rather than pilot error. I have not fiddled with the system much beyond
changing a few things to daily updates and such.

Scott

"When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment
results" - Calvin Coolidge, (Stanley Walker, City Editor, p. 131 (1934))
"The barbarian is thwarted at the moat." - Scott Adams

by **Earl Fryma** » Tue, 22 Apr 1997 04:00:00

> Howdy all.

> A rather bizzare problem showed up at the end of March. I am using Logrotate
> with my RedHat 4.1 distribution, and it seems to work quite nicely.

> At the end of March, a number of files ended up with dates in the status file
> of 3-31-97, which was then followed by error messages complaining about an
> illegal date. This killed logrotate cold.

<snip>

Go to http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/rh41-errata-general.html
and download the logrotate fix for bogus dates.

Earl Fryman

by **James Youngm** » Wed, 23 Apr 1997 04:00:00

Quote:
>Howdy all.

>A rather bizzare problem showed up at the end of March. I am using Logrotate
>with my RedHat 4.1 distribution, and it seems to work quite nicely.

>At the end of March, a number of files ended up with dates in the status file
>of 3-31-97, which was then followed by error messages complaining about an
>illegal date. This killed logrotate cold.

Note that this package had been updated to logrotate-2.1-1. A notice to this
effect appeared in the Errata and on the redhat-announce-list.

--
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by **Scott Ellswor** » Wed, 23 Apr 1997 04:00:00

[logrotate dies on 3-31-97]

Quote:>Go to http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/rh41-errata-general.html
>and download the logrotate fix for bogus dates.

I actually had done that before I posted. I made the mistake of reporting a
fixed bug once before, and it was a learning experience. :).

My assumption is that the bogus dates got put in there before I downloaded the
new version, and that for whatever reason, logrotate did not recover from the
problem. The errata claims that it silently fixes the problem, but it is
quite possible I did something unusual in my setup that stymied it.

Scott

"When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment
results" - Calvin Coolidge, (Stanley Walker, City Editor, p. 131 (1934))
"The barbarian is thwarted at the moat." - Scott Adams

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