/etc/logrotate.d/mythtv says postrotate /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/mythbackend.pid` which of course fails if mythbackend is not running, leading to weekly emails with an error message of cat (/var/run/mythbackend.pid: No such file or directory) and kill (which really wants to know which PID it's supposed to kill...) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install mythtv 2. Don't add mythbackend to the default runlevel 3. Wait up to 1 week 4. Read you root-mailbox Actual Results: Error mail "Subject: Cron <root@vihn1321> test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons" received Expected Results: No error mail :) # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-tv/mythtv/files/mythtv.logrotate.d,v 1.2 2007/03/19 04:24:12 cardoe Exp $ =media-tv/mythtv-0.22_p22824-r1
Fixed in mythtv-0.22_p23069
The new logrotate configuration in mythtv-0.22_p23069 reports a syntax error... logrotate_script: line 1: [: missing `]' Looks like a simple typo, the postrotate script needing a space inserting before the closing "]" to fix. i.e. [ -f "/var/run/mythbackend.pid" ] && /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/mythbackend.pid`
