I should also point out that logrotate, although listed in cron.daily, used to only rotate the logs on Sunday mornings. Now it tries to rotate them every day...yet another unexpected behavior.
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/* 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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