[K12OSN] Cron-Error

[Eric Harrison]

Petre Scheie wrote:
> The system's daily maintenance cron jobs are stored in /etc/cron.daily.
> Included in there is logrotate, used for rotating logs so they don't
> fill up the disk(s).  When logrotate is called, it looks in
> /etc/logrotate.d/ to see what log files it should rotate.  One of the
> scripts in /etc/logrotate.d/ is schoolbell.  If you look at
> /etc/logrotate.d/schoolbell, you'll see that it says schoolbells log
> files are /var/log/schoolbell/*.log.  But I suspect your system may be
> missing the /var/log/schoolbell directory, or there are no *.log files
> within it.  So, it spits out the error.  If you're not running
> schoolbell, you could just remove the /etc/logrotate.d/schoolbell script.
>
> Petre
>
> he schoolbell script that's in /etc/logrotate.d
>
> Mark Sarria wrote:
>
>> Hello List,
>>
>> Can anyone tell me what this error is about.
>>
>> Error: stat of /var/log/schoolbell/*.log failed: No such file or
>> directory
>>
>> I have K12 Fedora 3 installed running as my samba-ldap server.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> -mark


Removing /etc/logrotate.d/schoolbell would do the trick.

The next time I rebuild the packages, I'll add "missingok" to
/etc/logrotate.d/schoolbell and /etc/logrotate.d/schooltool so they
won't generate this meaningless error...


-Eric
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