wwp wrote: > Hello all, > > > seems that logrotate (logrotate-3.7.3-2.2.1) fails here for weeks, as I see > abnormally growing logs. /var/log/messages shows: > > logrotate: ALERT exited abnormally with [1] > > > I wonder if that's related, but launching `logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf` > manually tells me: > > error: bad year 1932 for file /var/log/cups/access_log in state file /var/lib/logrotate.status > > > I can see many lines in /var/lib/logrotate.status that show such 1932-date. > This status file itself is dated from 1932-10-25. Any idea wow could I fix > that w/o breaking anything? > > > Regards, > > I am not sure it will work, but what I would try is to backup /var/lib/logrotate.status. Then create an empty file, and run logrotate. mv /var/lib/logrotate.status /var/lib/logrotate.status.backup touch /var/lib/logrotate.status logrotate Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
