misc/160586: newsyslog can't properly rotate log files when ther
>Number: 160586
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: newsyslog can't properly rotate log files when there are no enough inodes
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Sep 09 12:00:18 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Leonid Evdokimov
>Release: FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #0 r221983M
>Organization:
Yandex
>Environment:
FreeBSD daisy2.yandex.ru 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #0 r221983M: Mon Jul 11 18:02:06 MSD 2011 root@distillatory.yandex.ru:/place/mkdump_workdir/obj/place/GIT-repos/FreeBSD-8-stable/sys/stable8-amd64-dtrace amd64
>Description:
All rotated files were collapsed into one inode. That's a bug. A serious one.
[darkk@daisy2 /var/log]$ ls -li /var/log/messages*
5822 -rw-r--r-- 7 root wheel 8839522 Sep 9 15:49 /var/log/messages
5822 -rw-r--r-- 7 root wheel 8839522 Sep 9 15:49 /var/log/messages.0
5822 -rw-r--r-- 7 root wheel 8839522 Sep 9 15:49 /var/log/messages.1
5822 -rw-r--r-- 7 root wheel 8839522 Sep 9 15:49 /var/log/messages.2
5822 -rw-r--r-- 7 root wheel 8839522 Sep 9 15:49 /var/log/messages.3
5822 -rw-r--r-- 7 root wheel 8839522 Sep 9 15:49 /var/log/messages.4
5822 -rw-r--r-- 7 root wheel 8839522 Sep 9 15:49 /var/log/messages.5
[darkk@daisy2 /var/log]$ head -1 /var/log/messages
Sep 8 16:00:00 daisy2 newsyslog[41658]: logfile turned over due to size>500K
>How-To-Repeat:
Fill /var partition with small files to use all inodes and try to rotate logs afterwards.
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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