On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:34:44 +0000 Paul Martin <p...@debian.org> wrote:
> Have you got a logrotate.conf script that exhibits this behaviour?
>
> From my reading of the source code, there should not be any change in
> this behaviour between versions.
>
> My suspicion is that you have "delaycompress" set:
We've just been confused by this as well. Attached is a sample conf
file. From logrotate 3.8.1, Debian 7.6, running with -d -f:
reading config file logrotate_order_test.conf
Handling 1 logs
rotating pattern: /var/log/foo.log forced from command line
(no old logs will be kept)
empty log files are rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /var/log/foo.log
log needs rotating
rotating log /var/log/foo.log, log->rotateCount is 0
dateext suffix '-20141104'
glob pattern '-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]'
renaming /var/log/foo.log.1.gz to /var/log/foo.log.2.gz
(rotatecount 1, logstart 1, i 1),
renaming /var/log/foo.log.0.gz to /var/log/foo.log.1.gz
(rotatecount 1, logstart 1, i 0),
renaming /var/log/foo.log to /var/log/foo.log.1
disposeName will be /var/log/foo.log.1.gz
running postrotate script
running script (multiple) with arg /var/log/foo.log : "
echo "Running postrotate script..."
ls /var/log/foo.log*
echo "Finished postrotate script"
"
compressing log with: /bin/gzip
removing old log /var/log/foo.log.1.gz
error: error opening /var/log/foo.log.1.gz: No such file or
directory
Compression is definitely happening after the postrotate script is run.
Looking at the source, it looks like compressLogFile() is getting called
in postrotateSingleLog() (logrotate.c, line 1455) if 'compress' is set
and 'delaycompress' isn't set:
if ((log->flags & LOG_FLAG_COMPRESS) &&
!(log->flags & LOG_FLAG_DELAYCOMPRESS)) {
hasErrors = compressLogFile(rotNames->finalName, log,
&state->sb);
}
compressLogFile() only gets called in prerotateSingleLog() if both
'compress' and 'delaycompress' are set: (line 1006)
if (log->flags & LOG_FLAG_COMPRESS &&
log->flags & LOG_FLAG_DELAYCOMPRESS) {
...
hasErrors = compressLogFile(oldName, log,
&sbprev);
...
hasErrors = compressLogFile(oldName, log, &sbprev);
...
}
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sharedscripts
postrotate
echo "Running postrotate script..."
ls /var/log/foo.log*
echo "Finished postrotate script"
endscript
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