From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-2smp i686; Nav) Description of problem: /etc/logrotate.d/psacct states the following: monthly Note that /var/log/pacct file is a fast growing file This really should be rotated on a daily basis and compressed. Keep 'em for a month, or longer, but do so in a compressed form. 1 week on a lightly used system will create a pacct log file close to 200 mb. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.install psacct rpm 2.leave system run for a week (that's 1 "logrotate week") 3. examine size of pacct file (if /var has not filled up in th e meantime! Actual Results: /var fills up in less than a week Expected Results: /var should not need several gigs of storage space (which it will for 4 to 5 uncompressed monthly paccts). Additional info:
Changed to daily rotation with 31 days worth of logs kept. psacct-6.3.2-7 will be in final release.