I asked: > Solaris 9 server. > > logadm.conf has line > /var/log/syslog -C 8 -P 'Thu Oct 9 08:10:00 2008' -a 'kill -HUP `cat > /var/run/syslog.pid`' -c -p 1d -z 2 > > Note that these files are very large (on the order of 1gig in size > after > 24 hours) so that is why they are rotated daily. > > syslog rotates to syslog.0 to syslog.1 just fine. syslog.2.gz rotates > to > syslog.3.gz to syslog4.gz to syslog.5.gz to syslog.6.gz just fine. > > The server seems to lose its mind when it comes to rotating syslog.1 > to > syslog.2 and then compressing it. I get every night: > > Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 03:10:18 -0500 (CDT) > From: root on rushmail <root@rushmail.cc1.rpslmc.edu> > To: root@rushmail.cc1.rpslmc.edu > Subject: Output from "cron" command > > Your "cron" job on rushmail > /usr/sbin/logadm > > produced the following output: > > logadm: Warning: command failed: /bin/gzip /var/log/syslog.2 > gzip: /var/log/syslog.2.gz already exists; not overwritten > > When I log in I see that a zero-size syslog.2.gz exists, and .1 has > been > rotated to .2. So I manually delete the zero-size syslog.2.gz and > compress syslog.2 every morning. Does anyone know of what trick is > needed > to get this to work automatically? The short answer: patch 116016-06. The long answer: the fact that -c and -z do not initially behave themselves together is documented in http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-1-4885799-1 Unfortunately that did not do the trick. I opened a Sun Case ID and they suggested I apply this patch. This patch actually implements this workaround, but also several other bug fixes. Thanks to: ghicks@cadence.com mh1272@gmail.com florkle@yahoo.com (Who gave me the sunsolve link) Crist.Clark@globalstar.com DRoss-Smith@reviewjournal.com hvjunk@gmail.com Christopher L. Barnard cbarnar1@earthlink.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------- When I was a boy, I was told that anyone could be president. Now I am beginning to believe it. -- Clarence Darrow _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Wed Oct 15 20:04:14 2008
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