On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Billy Davis wrote:
> Thanks for the reply Eric. I reviewed the mgetty file and found the
> astersik, and I see what you have changed. However, it seems to me that
> what ever problem caused these 'zillions' of files to be created, will
> still create them, or am I missing something? Your change seems to
> limit new log file creation to those ports that are valid (ie, S0, PS13,
> PS14 and PS15 in your case). In my case, since I only have one valid
> port (S4), then I would be simply changing the line
> '/var/log/mgetty.log.tty* {' to be '/var/log/mgetty.log.ttyS4 {' which
> would still allow error messages to be created for port S4. But, these
> are the errors that I was getting. What I really want to know, is what
> causes the S4 port to start creating bunches and bunches of empty log
> files in just a few seconds. Any idea?
It didn't happen in a few seconds, it happened over several weeks. The
explanation appears elsewhere.
BTW, somebody should file this in Bugzilla (against mgetty, not logrotate)
if it isn't there already.
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