On Monday 20 November 2006 14:58, David G. Miller wrote: >Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> And they both do. When I ran it like Rick recommended, >> (logrotate -vf ./logrotate.conf) from the logrotate.d directory, then >> the real error popped out, and that was because there wasn't a user >> 'named' because bind wasn't installed. It is now and although bind >> isn't configured or running, logrorate, at least from the cli, now >> works. I even copied my old version of the logrotate.d/syslog from >> FC2 because it has all my additions in it, and it now Just Works(TM) >> from the cli at any rate. >> >> To me thats a packageing error, there shouldn't be a file in >> logrotate.d for named UNTIL bind has been installed. >> >> I guess most folks weren't bit because they do install bind. I >> generally use host files here. > >Gene, by any chance was this box upgraded from a previous release? I >don't have a named user on my box that got a clean install of FC6: > Nope, fresh install on a different drive. The old drive is now mounted as hdb. ># cat /etc/passwd | grep named > >nor do I have bind installed: > ># rpm -qa | grep bind >bind-libs-9.3.3-6.fc6 >ypbind-1.19-5 >bind-utils-9.3.3-6.fc6 Mmm, one of those (I also installed them except for ypbind, at the same time) must be the one that appends the user 'named' to the pw file. >and logrotate works just fine. > >You might want to check to see if you still have a bind logrotate file >in /etc/logrotate.d. It makes sure the rotated logs still have >named:named as the owner and group which would cause the problem your >seeing. The files in logrotate.d are placed there by each application >that wants to have its logs rotated. All logrotate does is run the >files. It's possible an upgrade that removed bind didn't remove >/etc/logrotate.d/named. I repeat, no upgrade, fresh install. But I repeat myself... :) >Cheers, >Dave > >-- >Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of > principles. -- Ambrose Bierce -- 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.
