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Description of problem:
This refers to known bug in logrotate/mailman pertaining to incorrect
configuration that creates an infinite number of empty files in /var/log/mailman

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Disable mailman, but keep in on the system
2. run logrotate
3. watch files in /var/log/mailman
4. try to remove these files (rm -rf /var/log/mailman works best)
5. remove mailman from system (rpm -e mailman)
6. try to run logrotate again: it takes forever!

Actual Results:  A very large number of files were created in /var/log/mailman
(300,000+ in my case), named thus:

error.1
error.1.1
error.1.1.1
etc

*BUT ALSO* a very large (17MB+) status file was created as

/var/lib/logrotate.status



Expected Results:  Logrotate takes too much time to complete (hours!)


Additional info:

To fix logrotate, one must also:

1- delete /var/lib/logrotate.status

2- run /usr/sbin/logrotate -v -f  /etc/logrotate.conf