[ic] Thousands of error logs in .gz format

[Eric Paul]

Are you running logrotate.d?  My guess is that logrotate is auto-magically 
backing up your log files for you.  By default, Redhat runs this daemon at 
4-ish local time...

Check out the /etc/logrotate.conf file or the files in /etc/logrotate.d/ 
for any references to mv/ic and remove them.  This way your error log won't 
get swaped out on you and will continue to grow to mammoth proportions.

Eric

At 01:43 PM 10/6/00, you wrote:
>I can't find anything in the archives on this.
>
>In June I started experimenting with Minivend (4.04), and in mid-August I
>downloaded and installed Interchange (4.5.5) to try it also.  Both were
>installed using RPMs on Red Hat.  This is still a development environment.
>
>Today I discovered I have 232 "log" files from Interchange and over 42,000
>of them from Minivend, dating back to September 3.  These are in the same
>directories as their respective error.log files, but the names go like this:
>
>-rw-------    1 intercha intercha       37 Sep  3 04:03 error.log.3.gz.4.gz
>-rw-------    1 intercha intercha       72 Sep  3 04:03
>error.log.2.gz.1.gz.4.gz
>-rw-------    1 intercha intercha       42 Sep  3 04:03
>error.log.1.gz.2.gz.4.gz
>-rw-rw----    1 intercha intercha       43 Sep  3 04:03
>barry.error.log.3.gz.4.gz
>-rw-rw----    1 intercha intercha       84 Sep  3 04:03
>barry.error.log.2.gz.1.gz.4.gz
>-rw-rw----    1 intercha intercha       48 Sep  3 04:03
>barry.error.log.1.gz.2.gz.4.gz
>-rw-rw----    1 intercha intercha      145 Sep  3 04:03
>barry.error.log.1.gz.1.gz.1.gz.4.gz
>-rw-------    1 intercha intercha      395 Sep  6 08:27
>error.log.1.gz.1.gz.1.gz.4.gz
>-rw-rw----    1 intercha intercha      137 Sep 10 04:06
>barry.error.log.2.gz.1.gz.1.gz.3.gz
>-rw-rw----    1 intercha intercha       48 Sep 10 04:06
>barry.error.log.1.gz.3.gz.3.gz
>-rw-rw----    1 intercha intercha       92 Sep 10 04:06
>barry.error.log.1.gz.2.gz.1.gz.3.gz
>-rw-rw----    1 intercha intercha       53 Sep 10 04:06
>barry.error.log.1.gz.1.gz.2.gz.3.gz
>
>and so on.  The files appear to be created in bunches, and mostly (but not
>always) shortly after 4 AM.  cron jobs start at 4 AM, and backups at 4:30,
>but I haven't added anything new recently.  The vast majority of files are
>created on Sunday mornings, so I looked at the weekly crons, but it appears
>there's only a run of makewhatis.
>
>Many of the .gz files are zero length.  The others give either binary
>garbage, or an "unexpected end of file" when I try to gunzip them.
>error.log has no errors in it.
>
>So what could cause MV/IC to create these files, and how do I, to put it
>politely, discontinue it?
>
>             Thanks -- Warren
>
>
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