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Subject: mgetty: savelog error
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From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com>
Date: 07 Jul 1997 16:02:44 -0500
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Package: mgetty
Version: 1.1.7-3

Hi,

	I had 1.776 Million!! rotated savelog files since the
 cron.daily script in mgetty rotates even the older rotated savelog
 files, resulting in an ever increasing number of files!!

	The script should loop over mg_ttyS?.log; like so:

#!/bin/sh

cd /var/log/mgetty
for LOG in mg_ttyS?.log; do
   if [ -f $LOG ]; then
      savelog -g adm -m 644 -u root -c 7 $LOG >/dev/null
   fi
done

	manoj


__> cat /etc/cron.daily/mgetty 
#!/bin/sh

cd /var/log/mgetty
for LOG in *; do
   if [ -f $LOG ]; then
      savelog -g adm -m 644 -u root -c 7 $LOG >/dev/null
   fi
done
__> l /var/adm/mgetty/
total 1800
1781 ./                    0 mg_ttyS0.log.1.gz     0 mg_ttyS0.log.4.gz
   4 ../                   0 mg_ttyS0.log.2.gz     0 mg_ttyS0.log.5.gz
  15 mg_ttyS0.log          0 mg_ttyS0.log.3.gz     0 mg_ttyS0.log.6.gz

-- System Information
Debian Release: 1.3
Kernel Version: Linux tiamat 2.0.30 #1 Wed Jun 25 02:15:20 CDT 1997 i486 unknown

Versions of the packages mgetty depends on:
libc6   Version: 2.0.4-1

--- Begin /etc/mgetty/login.config (modified conffile)
Config file not present or no permissions for access

--- End /etc/mgetty/login.config

--- Begin /etc/mgetty/dialin.config (modified conffile)
Config file not present or no permissions for access

--- End /etc/mgetty/dialin.config

--- Begin /etc/mgetty/sendfax.config (modified conffile)
Config file not present or no permissions for access

--- End /etc/mgetty/sendfax.config

--- Begin /etc/mgetty/mgetty.config (modified conffile)
Config file not present or no permissions for access

--- End /etc/mgetty/mgetty.config
-- 
Manoj Srivastava               <url:mailto:srivasta@acm.org>
Mobile, Alabama USA            <url:http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/>