David G. Miller wrote: > 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 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 at 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!