Re: logrotate zombie

[Chris Brotherton <chris@protonlab.net>]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 09:34:34AM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> On 14.08.06 13:17, Chris Brotherton wrote:
> > I am have trouble running logrotate on debian testing.  Every morning when
> > cron daily runs, logrotate becomes defunct.  Here is the "ps" output:
> > 
> > root     24125 22098  0 06:25 ?        00:00:00 /USR/SBIN/CRON
> > root     24126 24125  0 06:25 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh -c test -x
> > /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily
> > root     24129 24126  0 06:25 ?        00:00:00 run-parts --report
> > /etc/cron.daily
> > root     24169 24129  0 06:28 ?        00:00:00 [logrotate] <defunct>
> 
> does it have any children? try "ps axlww | grep 24169"
> I guess it's trying to mail you something and sendmail stuck...
> 

It did have a sendmail child.  I was able to kill the logrotate zombie and I
received the email from the sendmail child.  Based on the email, I determined
that logrotate was have problems rotating the most recent access file for
lighttpd.  I moved the file out of the way and last night logrotate worked
without problems.  I will keep an eye on it and see if it becomes a problem
again.

Thanks,
Chris.