Re: [CentOS] Logrotate error?

David G. Miller wrote:

Robert kerplop@sbcglobal.net wrote"

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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

Dave, I think it WAS incorporated. That error was generated before I did the massive update that some were groaning about and has not happened since. One of the packages that was updated was spamassassin.

[root@beauregard ~]# grep spamassassin /var/log/messages Apr 12 23:32:37 beauregard Updated: spamassassin.i386 3.1.8-2.el5

The RPM on the DVD is spamassassin-3.1.7-4.el5.i386.rpm and without looking, I'll bet there is an error in the sa-update file in this version. My faith in "pore ol' beauregard"'s typing ability has been restored!

Thanks for the reply!