[SunHELP] help w/ sun cobalt - anyone?

[Will Mc Donald]

Do those Raqs run linux?

I suspect it's /etc/con.daily/logrotate (in a round about way) that's
causing this error.

logrotate is running daily and taking its configuration from
/etc/logrotate.conf and in logrotate.conf it's including anything in
/etc/logrotate.d, which probably includes the file for apache. In the
logrotate file for apache, there's the missingok flag.

*Why* this is an unknown option though... :)

>From the logrotate man page...

       missingok
              If  the log file is missing, go on to the next one without
issuing an error
              message. See also nomissingok.

Have a quick google [ http://makeashorterlink.com/?M2B96201 ] and see if you
can turn up anything in addition to

http://www-oss.fnal.gov/fss/hypermail/archives/hyp-linux/0580.html

and

http://mlug.missouri.edu/list-archives/1999-05/msg00014.php3

Just commenting the missinok lines in /etc/logrotate.d/apache should stop
the errors. Why logrotate is choking on the option is anyone's guess.

Will.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Bell" <tim at menus.com>
To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 10:07 AM
Subject: [SunHELP] help w/ sun cobalt - anyone?


> I just wanted to double check with others before I start trying to
> source my problem. I have two RAQ2's that generate error emails once a
> day. Not really a problem - I'm just a perfectionist. I tired combing
> the cobalt lists but came up with nothing.
>
> Subj: Cron <root at ns1> run-parts /etc/cron.daily
> Body:
> error: apache:2 unknown option 'missingok' -- ignoring line
> error: apache:9 unknown option 'missingok' -- ignoring line
> error: apache:16 unknown option 'missingok' -- ignoring line
> error: apache:23 unknown option 'missingok' -- ignoring line
> error: mysql:21 unknown option 'missingok' -- ignoring line
>
> Something is running under a cron like way (don't know of a better way
> to explain it) at 1 in the morning
> Crontabs' of every account have been zero-ed. Emails are sent to
> root at machinename so I'm assuming that what ever it is, is ran under root
> (I know - I'm a genus! It's called logic beyond dirt.)
>
> I just don't know where to begin because sun cobalt raq2s' are so ass
> backwards. Nothing works the way it's supposed to, or maybe it was just
> engineered to be a piece of kaka (i'm not a big fan of raq2s' - can you
> tell?).
>
> /etc/cron.daily contains three scripts:
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root           51 Jan 25  1999 logrotate
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          402 Aug  1  2000 makewhatis.cron
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          557 Mar  4  1999 updatedb.cron
> none of which (given a quick once over) looks to be the culprit of my
> error emails. (but i could be wrong)
>
> timmy!
> (I need a freaking job)
> tim at menus.com
>
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