[CLUE-Tech] Logrotate Looping Problem

[Jed S. Baer]

Running RH7.1, just upgraded to logrotate-3.5.6-1 because of a looping
problem, but that didn't fix it.

logrotate appears to read the config file (same with any config file on
my system), and then goes to 99% CPU usage, and doesn't do any disk IO.

<cd to /etc/logrotate.d/>
[root at priapas logrotate.d]# logrotate -df syslog 
reading config file syslog
reading config info for /var/log/messages 
reading config info for /var/log/secure 
reading config info for /var/log/maillog 
reading config info for /var/log/spooler 
reading config info for /var/log/boot.log 
reading config info for /var/log/cron 
<loops here>

/etc/logrotate.d/syslog is standard from the RH7.1 distro. Regrettably,
I don't look at my logs as often as I should (usually only when
something noticeable breaks), so I can't really tie this to anything
changed on the box. It appears to have been happening for quite a while.
Actually, all my logrotate files are standard from the distro, except I
added entries for my ppp logs to /etc/logrotate.conf, but running a
specific conf file rules that out, I think.

I couldn't find anything for this on the web. Has anyone here seen this?

TIA for any advice.
jed
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