Re: [CentOS] Logrotate error?

Robert kerplop@sbcglobal.net wrote"

This was in root's mail on a newly-installed CentOS-5 system.

To: root@beauregard.localdomain
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ANSI_X3.4-1968"
Subject: Anacron job for 'beauregard.localdomain' cron.daily
/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:

error: sa-update:3 unknown option 'notifyempty' -- ignoring line
                                        ^
                                        |
                                        *

But after looking at the file in question, it sure appears to me that the "y" is the result of a "typo" on the part of logrotate -- and who ever heard of machines making typos!

root@beauregard logrotate.d]# cat sa-update
/var/log/sa-update.log {
    monthly
    notifempty
    missingok
}
[root@beau

Perhaps the Menehune, speaking Jabberwocky? :-) At any rate, there are 16 files in /etc/logrotate.d containing a "notifempty" line and it hiccuped only the one time.

The same error occurred on FC6. Unfortunately, it looks like the fix never got brought forward to RHEL5. See this thread:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-January/msg03939.html

Cheers, Dave