Logrotate no longer works..."Too Many Open Files"

Mike Burger mburger at bubbanfriends.org
Wed Jun 27 12:48:20 UTC 2007


Saturday morning, I ran a yum update on my FC5 server.  I believe one of the
packages updated in that run was logrotate.

Ever since then, the logrotate job, in /etc/cron.daily, has problems, yielding
this output:

/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:

error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error creating output file /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/update.log.1.3.2:
Too many open files
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error creating output file /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/update.log.1.4:
Too many open files
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error creating output file /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/update.log.2: Too
many open files
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
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error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
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error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error running postrotate script for /var/named/chroot/var/log/named/* 
error: error opening /var/log/samba/inmrdmb6535lt01.log: Too many open files
error: error opening /var/log/samba/laurie.log: Too many open files
error: error opening /var/log/samba/nmbd.log: Too many open files
error: error opening /var/log/samba/smbd.log: Too many open files
error: error opening /var/log/squid/access.log: Too many open files
error: error opening /var/log/squid/cache.log: Too many open files
error: error opening /var/log/squid/store.log: Too many open files
error: error running postrotate script for /var/log/squid/store.log 
error: error creating output file /var/log/messages: Too many open files
error: error creating output file /var/log/secure: Too many open files
error: error creating output file /var/log/maillog: Too many open files
error: error creating output file /var/log/spooler: Too many open files
error: error creating output file /var/log/boot.log: Too many open files
error: error creating output file /var/log/cron: Too many open files
error: error running postrotate script for /var/log/messages /var/log/secure
/var/log/maillog /var/log/spooler /var/log/boot.log /var/log/cron 
error: error creating state file /var/lib/logrotate.status: Too many open files

The "postrotate script" for named is "/sbin/service named reload", for squid
it's "/usr/sbin/squid -k rotate", etc.  It doesn't seem to matter, though,
what the postrotate script is...it fails to run, regardless, meaning that
I now wind up with a lot of "service.log.1", "service.log.2", etc, but no
"service.log"
 
I'm also very confused about the "Too many open files" piece, as I'm not having
anything else give me problems with an error of that nature.

Any ideas?




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