Error Error Running Postrotate Script For /var/log/syslog

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PM #1 cyx View Profile View Forum Posts View Forum Threads Newbie Join Date Sep 2003 Posts 27 error running postrotate script, all details included I have a problem with my logrotate, everytime it tries to rotate the logs, it sends me this email: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: error: error running postrotate script error: error running postrotate script error: error running postrotate script error: error running postrotate script error: error running postrotate script logrotate su option error: error running shared postrotate script for /var/log/messages /var/log/secure /var/log/maillog /var/log/spooler /var/log/boot.log /var/log/cron This is how my /etc/logrotate.d/syslog looks like: Code: /var/log/messages /var/log/secure /var/log/maillog /var/log/spooler /var/log/boot.log /var/log/cron { sharedscripts postrotate /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true endscript } This is how my /etc/logrotate.conf looks like: Code: weekly rotate 4 create include /etc/logrotate.d /var/log/wtmp { monthly create 0664 root utmp rotate 1 } This is how my /etc/cron.daily/logrotate looks like: Code: #!/bin/sh /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf EXITVALUE=$? if [ $EXITVALUE != 0 ]; then /usr/bin/logger -t logrotate "ALERT exited abnormally with [$EXITVALUE]" fi exit 0 Everything looks fine, right? Then what's the prob? All my log files are in /var/log/ and most of them DONT get rotated. Here is a look into some of the files in /var/log/ (WHAT IS THAT strange wtmp thing?) ... [cut] ... -rw------- 1 root root 0 Feb 5 04:02 maillog -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 29 04:02 maillog.1 -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 22 04:02 maillog.2 -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 15 04:02 maillog.3 -rw------- 1 root root 2199284 Feb 5 13:33 maillog.4 -rw------- 1 root root 0 Feb 5 04:02 messages -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 29 04:02 messages.1 -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 22 04:02 messages

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communities company blog Stack Exchange Inbox Reputation and Badges sign up log in tour help Tour Start here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you http://askubuntu.com/questions/572971/ubuntu-14-04-logrotate-does-not-rotate-var-log-rsyslog-config might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting https://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1441929.html ads with us Ask Ubuntu Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Ask Ubuntu is a question and answer site for Ubuntu users and developers. Join them; parent directory it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top Ubuntu 14.04 - logrotate does not rotate /var/log/* (rsyslog config) up vote 3 down vote favorite I have a bunch of Ubuntu 14.04 servers I manage parent directory has where logrotate is not rotating anything under /var/log/*. I'm going to assume its an issue with the /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog as I see other entries in /etc/logrotate.d/ rotating logs properly. These servers are deployed using CHEF. However I don't see anything in the recipes, etc. that are referencing any functional changes to logrotate. There are a few scripts added to /etc/logrotate.d and those scripts do run every day as expected. Is it possible that one script under /etc/logrotate.d could affect another (I wouldn't think so)? Similar servers using the same CHEF recipes are configured on Ubuntu 12.04 boxes do not have this symptom of logs not rotating under /var/log/*. Running /usr/sbin/logrotate -d /etc/logrotate.conf, I get the following (omitting anything not rsyslog related): rotating pattern: /var/log/syslog after 1 days (7 rotations) empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed switching euid to 0 and egid to 104 considering log /var/log/syslog log does not need rotating switching euid to 0 and egid to 0 rotating pattern: /var/log/mail.info /var/

2010, 03:59 PMI can't get my apache2 log files to rotate on an Ubuntu 8.04 64-bit server install. Does anybody know of logrotate creates an error log somewhere by default? Here's my /etc/logrotate.d/apache2 file if someone has any insight if I am doing something wrong. Thanks. /var/log/apache2/*.log /var/log/apache2/portal/*.log { weekly missingok rotate 52 nocompress notifempty create 640 root adm sharedscripts postrotate if [ -f "`. /etc/apache2/envvars ; echo ${APACHE_PID_FILE:-/var/run/apache2.pid}`" ]; then /etc/init.d/apache2 reload > /dev/null fi endscript } tr333March 30th, 2010, 12:13 PMI don't know much about logrotate, but the man page says it's run daily via a cronjob at /etc/cron.daily/logrotate. It looks like cron outputs logs to /var/log/syslog, so you can check that for errors. zgrep 'CRON' /var/log/syslog* osxMarch 30th, 2010, 04:25 PMI don't know much about logrotate, but the man page says it's run daily via a cronjob at /etc/cron.daily/logrotate. It looks like cron outputs logs to /var/log/syslog, so you can check that for errors. zgrep 'CRON' /var/log/syslog* Thanks. Just tried that and still no luck. There are entries related to cron, and I see lots of them for cron.hourly and some for cron.weekly, but they all relate to php5. None are for apache2. tr333March 31st, 2010, 12:01 AMI just installed apache2 in a VM and looked at the default logrotate file for it. Can't really see anything in your file that would cause it to fail. Check /etc/crontab and see if the line for run-parts on /etc/cron.daily is commented out or missing? That's where the daily crontab files (/etc/cron.daily/*) are run from, alongside the cron.hourly, cron.weekly and cron.monthly files. Also, check the contents of /var/lib/logrotate/status. That shows the current state of rotated logs. If you have edited /etc/logrotate.conf, check if it still has the line "include /etc/logrotate.d" to include all the files in /etc/logrotate.d when do