Thursday 25 September 2008, Amit Uttamchandani wrote : > Anacron sends out a local email complaining about logrotate: > > /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: > error: bad year 1903 for file /var/log/aptitude in state > file /var/lib/logrotate/status run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate > exited with return code 1 > > Looking at /var/log with ls -l i see several different files with bad > dates. Now, the 1903 date happened when my laptop battery died and on > top of that, the CMOS battery is no good as well. > > How do I solve the above issue? Do I simply execute a touch command > to the files in question so they have the current date?
If these files are supposed to be older than other logs, use touch -d instead and it should work. > > Thanks for any help. > > Amit Regards, Thomas Preud'homme -- Why Debian : http://www.debian.org/intro/why_debian
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