[Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: Weekly log rotation

[Anna]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:48 AM, Jon Nettleton <jon.nettleton at gmail.com>wrote:

> Does it work if you run /etc/cron.daily/logrotate by hand as root?
>

Nope:

[root at schoolserver] ~ >cd /etc/cron.daily/
[root at schoolserver] cron.daily >./logrotate
error: failed to open config file *: No such file or directory
error: found error in file *, skipping

So this is weird to see this in there:
[root at schoolserver] ~ >ls /etc/cron.daily/
etckeeper  logrotate  man-db.cron  mlocate.cron

[root at schoolserver] cron.daily >cat 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
[root at schoolserver] cron.daily >whereis logger
logger: /bin/logger /usr/bin/logger /usr/share/man/man1p/logger.1p.gz

And there's nothing here:

[root at schoolserver] ~ >ls /etc/cron.weekly/
[root at schoolserver] ~ >




>
>
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Anna <aschoolf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Jon Nettleton <jon.nettleton at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> What does your /etc/logrotate.conf look like?  One option for logrotate
>>> is to only rotate if the logs have reached a certain size.
>>>
>>>
>> My understanding was it was supposed to rotate weekly no matter what.
>>
>> [root at schoolserver] ~ >cat /etc/logrotate.conf
>> # see "man logrotate" for details
>> # rotate log files weekly
>> weekly
>>
>> # keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs
>> rotate 4
>>
>> # create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
>> create
>>
>> # use date as a suffix of the rotated file
>> dateext
>>
>> # uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
>> #compress
>>
>> # RPM packages drop log rotation information into this directory
>> include /etc/logrotate.d
>>
>> # no packages own wtmp and btmp -- we'll rotate them here
>> /var/log/wtmp {
>>     monthly
>>     create 0664 root utmp
>> minsize 1M
>>     rotate 1
>> }
>>
>> /var/log/btmp {
>>     missingok
>>     monthly
>>     create 0600 root utmp
>>     rotate 1
>> }
>>
>> # system-specific logs may be also be configured here.
>>
>>
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