question on logrotate

Gene Heskett gheskett at wdtv.com
Sun Jul 20 08:48:37 UTC 2014


Semi routine disk usage for a smaller machine showed over 26Gb.  Similar 
machine, doing similar work, 2.6G.

Found that a ucvideo error had been spewing 300 lines a second into the 
/var/log/kern.log (now kern.log.1) and that from the 8th to the 12th, had 
spewed a bit over 20Gb.  It only stopped when I did a reboot because the 
camera on the milling machine had stopped working.

I just nuked that file.

I don't know enough about how logrotate works, and there are even older 
kern.logs.# still there.

Is this going to confuse logrotate, when it finds a missing file in its 
rotation?

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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