RE: [cobalt-users] log script error

["Kevin McCann" <techadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ricky wrote

     I've been getting this error sent to
     root mailbox...seems to be part of
     a daily cron job that was there when
     we got our Raq3.  Any help?

     To: root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
     Subject: errors rotating logs

     errors occured while rotating
     /var/log/maillog

     Can't use an undefined value as a
     symbol reference at
     /usr/local/sbin/split_logs line 143,
     <STDIN> chunk 1.
     error running prerotate script --
     leaving old log in place

I was getting a similar error from the prerotate script with respect to the
access log. Called support and they had only one suggestion. Delete the
file. So we deleted the log file (loosing the data there... suppose I could
have gz'd it for safe keeping) then ran the commnad "touch access" which
created a 0 byte access log file. Haven't recieved the message again so it
appears to have worked.

As to WHY? Cobalt had no answer.

Kevin



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