Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron messages...

[Jarry <mr.jarry@gmail.com>]

Alex Schuster wrote:
>> SUBJECT: Cron <root@obelix> test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons &&
>> /usr/sbin/run-crons
>> error: kernel:9 unknown option 'compytruncate' -- ignoring line
>> error: kernel:12 unknown option 'endscript' -- ignoring line
>> ------------------
> I assume you are using logrotate, and have the /etc/logrotate.d/kernel 
> file? I guess the 'compytruncate' is misspelled and should be 
> 'copytruncate'. And 'endscript' is used after using 'prerotate' or 
> 'postrotate', which you probably do not have.

You are right: I just quickly created logrotate config for kernel
by copying from other config, misspeled that "compytruncate",
erased "postrotate" script but forgot to delete "endscript".
I completely forgot about this change, and when I received
email with "error: kernel" I immediatelly thought of some
kernel misconfiguration...

> Something like that, I never used logrotate by myself. See the man page 
> for more information.

Let me ask: how do you deal with /var/log/wtmp? I think it does not
go through syslog, and even it it does, it is not easy to process it
whit that syslog-macro because it is not pure text file. Do you
let it grow forever? Or how do you transfer it to log-server?

Jarry

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