logrotate on FC3

Kristina Clair kclair at gmail.com
Tue Apr 12 16:09:55 UTC 2005


Just some more information:  I haven't modified any of the files in
/etc/logrotate.d or the logrotate.conf file.  Also, I ran logrotate -d
/etc/logrotate.conf -- no errors reported.
The system is completely up-to-date.

Kristina

On Apr 12, 2005 10:29 AM, Kristina Clair <kclair at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Has anyone else had any problems with logrotate on Fedora Core 3?  It
> seems to me that the postrotate scripts aren't running -- the files
> get rotated, but the files that continue to get written to are the
> files that have just been rotated.  For example:
> 
> -rw-------  1 root root        0 Apr 10 04:02 secure
> -rw-------  1 root root     1499 Apr 11 09:50 secure.1
> -rw-------  1 root root     1028 Apr  5 10:45 secure.2
> -rw-------  1 root root        0 Mar 20 04:02 secure.3
> -rw-------  1 root root        0 Mar 13 04:02 secure.4
> 
> Even though secure was created when logrotate ran on April 10th, it is
> secure.1 that continues to be used.
> Restarting syslogd solves the problem.
> 
> Also, in my custom logrotate scripts, the same problem is occurring.
> 
> Kristina
>




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