newsyslog gone mad

[Victor Sudakov]

Dear Colleagues,

On one of my Web servers, newsyslog went mad and sliced up the logs into
hundreds of thousands of small files like

./access_log.2.gz.13.gz.1.gz
./access_log.2.gz.5.gz.3.gz.7.gz
./access_log.2.gz.8.gz.3.gz
./access_log.2.gz.9.gz.2.gz
./access_log.2.gz.8.gz.1.gz.1.gz
./access_log.3.gz.1.gz.1.gz.1.gz.1.gz.1.gz.4.gz
./access_log.3.gz.1.gz.1.gz.1.gz.1.gz.1.gz.1.gz
./access_log.3.gz.1.gz.1.gz.1.gz.1.gz.1.gz.1.gz.2.gz
./access_log.2.gz.5.gz.1.gz.2.gz.1.gz.0.gz
./access_log.2.gz.13.gz.0.gz
./access_log.3.gz.1.gz.1.gz.1.gz.1.gz.1.gz.1.gz.1.gz
./access_log.2.gz.6.gz.1.gz.5.gz.0.gz
./access_log.3.gz.1.gz.1.gz.1.gz.2.gz.2.gz

Most of those files are one- or two-liners only with 

Nov  1 00:00:00 www2 newsyslog[8804]: logfile turned over
Dec  1 00:00:00 www2 newsyslog[72418]: logfile turned over

in them.

What was that? 

Here is the relevant line from /etc/newsyslog.conf:
/usr/home/www/*/logs/*                 644  24    *    @01T00 GZ /var/run/httpd.pid


-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
2:5005/49 at fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
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