From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020606 Description of problem: If the logrotate filespec matches a file with a space in its filename, the logrotate state file will be rendered corrupt (unparseable?) and this error will be logged: error: bad line 49 in state file /var/lib/logrotate.status This apparently prevents other log files from being rotated, and can lead to excessive use of disk space and unreasonably large log files. Example: this occurred with the samba logrotate file where several samba users have spaces in their computer's NetBIOS names, thus their samba log files have embedded spaces. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): logrotate-3.3.2-1 Is this fixed in a newer logrotate that we can use on RH6.2? How reproducible: Didn't try.
That's a pretty old version of logrotate you're using. Please try the latest, and reopen if the problem persists. I know a fix was made related to filename quoting.