(RHE4) Logrotate Not Restarting Syslog

Bill Tangren bjt at aa.usno.navy.mil
Tue Jan 31 13:44:13 UTC 2006


Jason Williard wrote:
>>>Does anyone know why this is not working?
>>
>>Maybe, but I had something similar which was caused because the /tmp 
>>partition mounted with noexec.
> 
> 
> 
> That appears to have been my issue.  I removed noexec from that line in
> /etc/fstab, restarted and now things are working again.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jason
> 

You may want to be careful with that solution. Everyone on your system has 
access to /tmp. I believe noexec is there for security reasons. You might want 
to consider Sean's solution instead.

Bill




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