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Hi Matthew,

Thanks, will investigate this...

best regards,
Jos


Matthew Seaman:
> On 26/05/2012 12:02, Jos Chrispijn wrote:
>> I have this issue with bzip2 and the generation of backup logfiles.
>> This is the error I get:
>>
>> --- cut ---
>>
>> bzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out.  Possible reason follows.
>> bzip2: No such file or directory
>>      Input file = /var/log/all.log.0, output file = /var/log/all.log.0.bz2
>> newsyslog: `bzip2 -f /var/log/all.log.0' terminated with a non-zero
>> status (1)
>> bzip2: Can't open input file /var/log/maillog.0: No such file or directory.
>> newsyslog: `bzip2 -f /var/log/maillog.0' terminated with a non-zero
>> status (1)
>>
>> --- cut ---
>>
>> Can you tell me what goes wrong here and how to solve this?
> The underlying problem seems to be problems writing to /var/log.
> Is the partition (/var probably) full up or out of inodes?
>
>     df -ih /var/log
>
> Also, look at the console to see if anything has been logged there.
>
> If it isn't running out of space, then check that the directory hasn't
> got weird flags settings:
>
>     ls -laoR /var/log
>
> Having something like noschg set on the directory would cause the
> observed symptoms, but I am at a loss to understand how on earth
> anything like that could come about.
>
> There are a couple of other things it might be, but it's quite unlikely
> you wouldn't get crashes, coredumps and other signs of the end-times
> should any of those be the case.
>
> 	Cheers,
>
> 	Matthew
>