Robert <kerplop at sbcglobal.net> wrote" > 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 > ^ > | > * > > 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. 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 -- Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -- Ambrose Bierce