> differences between CentOS and Debian?
Neither nor. These are Jails in FreeBSD, old 12.1. Not a server I maintain. For details see "our sister thread" Has Ghostscript something to do with a half a million lock files? (linked to the OP)
> Those cron logs in my /var/log/ are not rotated automagically.
Neither nor. These are Jails in FreeBSD, old 12.1. Not a server I maintain. For details see "our sister thread" Has Ghostscript something to do with a half a million lock files? (linked to the OP)
> Those cron logs in my /var/log/ are not rotated automagically.
Log rotation is I believe a site-topic. It is in place since years. Other than the newsyslog meddling with the file owner overnight, it was doing its job.
> Since am using the single > log file is overwritten ... thus varies size wise but I've never run across one of those corrupted.
So, you have '> /var/log/cronlog' in your (Linux) web servers, no problems there, even under Moodle rel. 3.11? The ad-hoc processing was continuously expanding.
> Thinking out-loud here ... wonder if disk has some sector/node issues?
The server was so badly maintained, anything is possible. Before I gladly give it back, I want to know the cause. It is a postmortem; it is worse, the patient is back walking, working. Once he falls flat, the kin will visit the last doctor who treated him.