[Server-devel] Weekly log rotation

Anna aschoolf at gmail.com
Thu Sep 19 01:34:57 EDT 2013


On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:50 PM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:

> Things to check:
>
> - is crond running?  (it isn't present by default on OLPC OS)
>

[root at schoolserver] ~ >systemctl status crond.service
crond.service - Command Scheduler
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/crond.service; enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Wed 2013-09-11 00:20:49 GMT; 1 weeks 1
days ago
 Main PID: 513 (crond)
   CGroup: name=systemd:/system/crond.service
           └─513 /usr/sbin/crond -n

Warning: Journal has been rotated since unit was started. Log output is
incomplete or unavailable.


>
> - is logrotate installed?
>

[root at schoolserver] ~ >whereis logrotate
logrotate: /sbin/logrotate /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf
/etc/logrotate.d

- is /etc/cron.daily/logrotate present?
>

[root at schoolserver] ~ >cat /etc/cron.daily/logrotate
#!/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


> - is /etc/logrotate.d/syslog present?
>

[root at schoolserver] ~ >cat /etc/logrotate.d/syslog
/var/log/cron
/var/log/maillog
/var/log/messages
/var/log/secure
/var/log/spooler
{
    sharedscripts
    postrotate
/bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
    endscript
}



>
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:10:39PM -0500, Anna wrote:
> > Oops, forgot to copy server-devel
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Anna <aschoolf at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >     Was weekly log rotation supposed to be a thing?  I thought we talked
> about
> >     it.
> >
> >     Here's the XSCE on an XO 1.5, running like a champ for this uptime on
> >     xs-config-0.8.4.260.g5388399-1.noarch
> >
> >     [root at schoolserver] ~ >uptime
> >      03:43:11 up 8 days,  3:22,  2 users,  load average: 0.14, 0.24, 0.27
> >     [root at schoolserver] ~ >ls /var/log
> >     btmp          httpd     monit.log           ppp
>
> >        spooler      user.log            yum.log
> >     cron          lastlog   moodle              puppet
>
> >         squid        wpa_supplicant.log
> >     dansguardian  maillog   moodle-instupg.log
> >      pwr-SHC0050085F-130911_002052.csv  sugar-stats  wtmp
> >     ejabberd      messages  powerd.trace        secure
>
> >         tallylog     xs-setup.log
> >
> >     I've poked into dirs in /var/log and don't see any log rotation.  But
> >     secure should be rotating, if log rotation is working.
> >
> >     Anna
> >
> >
>
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>
>
> --
> James Cameron
> http://quozl.linux.org.au/
>
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