On Monday 20 November 2006 14:51, Ric Moore wrote: >On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 08:31 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Monday 20 November 2006 08:09, Anne Wilson wrote: >> >On Monday 20 November 2006 12:46, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> Now if logrotate would work... Its not. See my other post. >> > >> >Well, for all the logs that I would expect to rotate, I have files >> > dated 5.11.06, 12.11.06, 19.11.06 and 20.11.06. >> > >> >Yet another peculiarity of your install, Gene. >> > >> >Anne >> >> I *may* be on the track of it, following Ricks advice I ran it from a >> shell, and discovered the whole thing died on not finding a user >> 'named', and I do not have bind installed. So I'll do that but set >> the service to off. nscd is running and thats should be enough. >> >> As to this being a bugzilla-able item, dunno. It seems to me that it >> should be bind that installs this particular script, not logrotate's >> rpm. >> >> After installing bind, the user named is in the passwd file, and it >> runs. This to me is a bugzilla-able packaging problem. > >I double-dog dare you to file a bugzilla on this <howls with glee> after >you mention in passing that you restored the root directory from an FC2 >install to FC6. Why is it that everyone thinks I copied the whole damned root tree over? I have repeatedly said I copied my data, and the contents of my /root/bin, but very little else, certainly none of the .kde stuffs was copied straight across. >I'm laughing with you Gene, laughing WITH you as my damn >KDE desktop keeps winking error messages at me, that I have not figured >out yet, whenever I pass the mouse over an icon (!), from restoring an >FC5 /root to FC6. My bad, I just HAD to do it all at once, you see. Ring >any bells?? No, cause I DIDN'T copy the whole thing. >I can imagine Rahual chewing his arm off, so he doesn't have >to touch the keyboard on that bug report! <howls with anticipatory glee >at the notion> Thats up to him, provided I get past the buzilla login, that thing hates me. ><benediction> Go forth and sin no more! <benediction/> > >Another fellow sinner running as root! THERE! I'm OUT OF THE CLOSET!! >Someone just kill me, now. Ric Nahh, we aren't, either one of us, worth the bullets. But we sure as hell do have fun. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
