[SOLVED] F22 rsyslogd writes to a dated file name...

[dwoody5654]

On 06/25/2015 09:10 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 06/26/15 09:49, dwoody5654 wrote:
>> The following is a current list of the messages file in /var/log:
>>
>> -rw-------. 1 root root 104339300 Jun 20 10:27 messages-20150614
>> -rw-------  1 root root                 0 Jun 22 03:30 messages
>> -rw-------  1 root root  36077670 Jun 25 20:25 messages-20150622
>>
>> The other log files are treated similarly.
>>
>> -rw-------. 1 root root 9446999 Jun 20 10:27 secure-20150614
>> -rw-------  1 root root             0 Jun 22 03:30 secure
>> -rw-------  1 root root 1493733 Jun 25 20:38 secure-20150622
>>
>> I have bot been able to find out why the messages file is zero length or why the messages file that is being written to is a date identified file, in this case messages-20150622.
>>
>> Is there a config setting to change this?
> This is most likely due to the known bug in the logrotate file for rsyslog/syslog.
>
> Edit /etc/logrotate.d/syslog and make sure the postrotate line has "rsyslogd.pid" and not "syslogd.pid"
>
> You can either allow things to sort themselves out, or running the "kill" command as shown will probably fix it.
Thanks for your quick response.
Works as described. I edited the file /etc/logrotate.d/syslog.

David