Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 64994
"Cannot append data to that file" Error
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:42:36 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.0 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020502 Description of problem: Cron runs /usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1 every 10 minutes and I keep getting the error "Cannot append data to that file". I've removed the /var/log/sa/sa15 and it works for a while but then eventually comes back with the same "Cannon append" message. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1./usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1 runs automatically from cron every 10 minutes 2. 3. Actual Results: The cron job reports an error of "Cannot append data to that file". Expected Results: The cron job runs silently. Additional info: I've rebooted a couple of times today for various reasons. I don't know if that's contributing or not.
Still a problem with 4.0.5-1 from http://people.redhat.com/teg/sysstat/ ?
Sorry for not updating this bug but the problem went away. I don't know what exactly fixed it but I no longer have the problem.
Hello, I experienced the same trouble reported in this bug report. The problem is that I changed my system clock time after the sa1 utility created a log file. The work around is to delete /var/log/sa/sa`date +%d`. Regards, Joe Kotran