MAILMAN STRANGE FILES

[Ed Wilts]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 10:35:31AM -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, John Jacks wrote:
> 
> > In th/var/log/mailman folder ;there are 100's of files like for eg
> > error.4.1.1.1.1.2.1 .Please can anyone suggest why are these files
> > getting created .These all are 0 byte files .
> 
> Upgrade to the errata version of mailman.  Then just delete the files in
> /var/log/mailman and start again.

THis is a classic logrotate issue where somebody has a config file that
says rotate error*.  The first week, you get error.1.  Next week you get
error.1.1.  Repeat until you fill the disk.

As Mathew says, update mailman with a fixed logrotate config.

        .../Ed

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