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Re: logrotate: file size changed while zipping



On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:42:30 +0200, Slavko wrote:
in last days (perhaps weeks) i get daily mail from cron's logrotate task
with this:

/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
gzip: stdin: file size changed while zipping

I had this too over a year on testing/unstable. I did put --verbose to logrotate, it seems samba nmbd is causing it.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=702201

There is already bug reported about it.

From Cron message:
rotating pattern: /var/log/samba/log.nmbd  weekly (7 rotations)
empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /var/log/samba/log.nmbd
  log needs rotating
rotating log /var/log/samba/log.nmbd, log->rotateCount is 7
dateext suffix '-20130818'
glob pattern '-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]'
renaming /var/log/samba/log.nmbd.7.gz to /var/log/samba/log.nmbd.8.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 7), renaming /var/log/samba/log.nmbd.6.gz to /var/log/samba/log.nmbd.7.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 6), renaming /var/log/samba/log.nmbd.5.gz to /var/log/samba/log.nmbd.6.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 5), renaming /var/log/samba/log.nmbd.4.gz to /var/log/samba/log.nmbd.5.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 4), renaming /var/log/samba/log.nmbd.3.gz to /var/log/samba/log.nmbd.4.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 3), renaming /var/log/samba/log.nmbd.2.gz to /var/log/samba/log.nmbd.3.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 2), renaming /var/log/samba/log.nmbd.1.gz to /var/log/samba/log.nmbd.2.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 1), renaming /var/log/samba/log.nmbd.0.gz to /var/log/samba/log.nmbd.1.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 0),
old log /var/log/samba/log.nmbd.0.gz does not exist
renaming /var/log/samba/log.nmbd to /var/log/samba/log.nmbd.1
creating new /var/log/samba/log.nmbd mode = 0644 uid = 0 gid = 0
running postrotate script
compressing log with: /bin/gzip
gzip: stdin: file size changed while zipping
removing old log /var/log/samba/log.nmbd.8.gz

End of /var/log/samba/log.nmbd.1.gz:
[2013/08/18 06:25:03,  0] nmbd/nmbd.c:128(nmbd_sig_hup_handler)
  Got SIGHUP dumping debug info.
[2013/08/18 06:25:03,  0] nmbd/nmbd_workgroupdb.c:276(dump_workgroups)
  dump_workgroups()
   dump workgroup on subnet        10.0.0.1: netmask=  255.255.255.0:
  	WORKGROUP(1) current master browser = FIREWALL
  		FIREWALL 40849a03 (firewall server)
  		SERVER 40801a03 ()
[2013/08/18 06:25:03,  0] nmbd/nmbd_workgroupdb.c:276(dump_workgroups)
  dump_workgroups()
   dump workgroup on subnet  UNICAST_SUBNET: netmask=       10.0.0.1:
  	WORKGROUP(1) current master browser = UNKNOWN
  		FIREWALL 40819a03 (firewall server)


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