Description of Problem: There is an error in /etc/logrotate.d/mailman /var/log/mailman/* { missingok } The wildcard causes logrotate to rotate rotated logs resulting in: error error.1 error.1.1 error.1.1.1 error.1.1.1.1 error.1.1.1.1.1 error.1.1.1.1.1.1 error.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 error.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 error.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 error.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 error.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 .... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mailman-2.0.11-1 How Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Has happened on two systems where mailman is not in use... Actual Results: As you can see above... this will ultimately cause the filesystem to run out of inodes if left alone Expected Results: Normal rotation of the logs, for example: error error.1 error.2 error.3 Additional Information: This package is not the only one affected, here's the results of: grep '*' /etc/logrotate.d/* /etc/logrotate.d/mailman:/var/log/mailman/* { /etc/logrotate.d/mgetty:/var/log/mgetty.log.tty* { /etc/logrotate.d/samba:/var/log/samba/*.log { /etc/logrotate.d/vgetty:/var/log/vgetty.log.tty* {
This is a re-run of: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=68096 and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=68422 -- it also existed in samba a couple of years ago -- proper fix locale is to have logrotate not rotate anything ending in [0-9z]$ -- I will RFE this in a moment against logrotate It has DoS overtones, as do the others, in depleting inodes on the host in question