This was in root's mail on a newly-installed CentOS-5 system.
To: root at 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
^
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*
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 at beauregard logrotate.d]# cat sa-update
/var/log/sa-update.log {
monthly
notifempty
missingok
}
[root at 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.