[syslog-ng] mismatching size/inode information

Gbe gbe gbeantipub at gmail.com
Fri Oct 7 16:18:42 CEST 2011


2011/10/7 Gergely Nagy <algernon at balabit.hu>:
> Gbe gbe <gbeantipub at gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> Nothing to worry about. At least, if you do have rotation set up, and
>>> the messages come shortly after rotation happens.
>>
>> That's reassuring.
>> However, this machine has been up for several months (I don't mean the
>> uptime) and has never printed those messages. As far as I know the
>> configuration hasn't changed recently. This is why I start suspecting
>> hardware failure. Nothing else in the logs tells me about any hardware
>> errors.
>
> I'd check the logrotate configs, to see if any of the logs syslog-ng
> complains about are rotated, and if so, when. Then check whether that
> time is around the time the warnings are printed.

You were perfectly right. Thank you for your precious help.

Greg.


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