Re: [webmin-l] problems with log rotation

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 27/Apr/2007 07:49 Andrea Lanza wrote ..
> Hi all, I am getting this error when i Force log rotation of ANY scheduled
> rotation (or force log rotation of all files)
> 
> error: /tmp/.webmin/610334_1_save_log.cgi:6 lines must begin with a keyword
> or a filename (possibly in double quotes)
> 
> when I go and look for that file, it does not exist (probably already
> deleted)
> 
> I see it exists a file named:
> 
> /usr/libexec/webmin/logrotate/save_log.cgi
> 
> In its 6th line I can read:
> 
> &ReadParse();
> 
> (Actually I don't know if /usr/libexec/webmin/logrotate/save_log.cgi is
> related to /tmp/.webmin/610334_1_save_log.cgi)
> 
> I am using Webmin version 1.340, on Suse Linux 10.1 64 bit
> 
> Linux appmi01 2.6.16.27-0.9-smp #1 SMP Tue Feb 13 09:35:18 UTC 2007 x86_64
> x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

That file in /tmp/.webmin is a temporary written out by Webmin, which is supposed
to contain just the logrotate.conf section for the log file being rotated. However,
there may be some error or un-expected data in logrotate.conf that Webmin isn't
parsing properly, which causes this error.

Could you post the contents of your /etc/logrotate.conf file to the list?

 - Jamie