I ran into this exact problem months back and I think I filed a bug report but can't seem to find it. The 'logrotate.d/atop' file was deleted in the atop.postinst:
#!/bin/bash
set -e
if dpkg-maintscript-helper supports rm_conffile; then
dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile \
/etc/logrotate.d/atop 1.26-2~ -- "$@"
<* snip *>
I guess the intent was to handle log file rotation
via a job run at midnight ('/etc/cron.d/atop'):
# start atop daily at midnight
0 0 * * * root /etc/atop/atop.daily
The 'atop.daily' script is not in the Debian package but itdate +%Y%m%d
was/is in the Fedora version of atop (v2+), and does the following:
1) Sets the current day's atop file name to 'atop_$(date +%Y%m%d)'
2) Stops atop
3) Starts atop using the atop file name from step 1
4) Deletes logfiles older than four weeks
I have attached atop.daily file for perusal.
Once I put that mechanism in place things run fine:
lt /var/log/atop
total 115200
3756 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3838089 Dec 5 00:00 atop_20141204
3524 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3608110 Dec 6 00:00 atop_20141205
4200 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4293850 Dec 7 00:00 atop_20141206
4832 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4941112 Dec 8 00:00 atop_20141207
4744 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4852213 Dec 9 00:00 atop_20141208
3476 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3552609 Dec 10 00:00 atop_20141209
4196 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4291464 Dec 11 00:00 atop_20141210
3528 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3610852 Dec 12 00:00 atop_20141211
3996 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4084699 Dec 13 00:00 atop_20141212
3936 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4022653 Dec 14 00:00 atop_20141213
3556 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3634644 Dec 15 00:00 atop_20141214
3208 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3277817 Dec 16 00:00 atop_20141215
3032 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3099054 Dec 17 00:00 atop_20141216
3856 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3943060 Dec 18 00:00 atop_20141217
3332 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3407345 Dec 19 00:00 atop_20141218
3888 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3976167 Dec 20 00:00 atop_20141219
5040 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5154520 Dec 21 00:00 atop_20141220
3708 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3789303 Dec 22 00:00 atop_20141221
4304 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4402503 Dec 23 00:00 atop_20141222
4068 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4160795 Dec 24 00:00 atop_20141223
4276 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4372921 Dec 25 00:00 atop_20141224
4092 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4183791 Dec 26 00:00 atop_20141225
3920 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4009570 Dec 27 00:00 atop_20141226
3184 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3253251 Dec 28 00:00 atop_20141227
4148 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4242474 Dec 29 00:00 atop_20141228
4000 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4091041 Dec 30 00:00 atop_20141229
4064 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4153619 Dec 31 00:00 atop_20141230
4280 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4375108 Jan 1 00:00 atop_20141231
0 -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 1 05:28 dummy_before.1
0 -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 1 05:28 dummy_after.1
3316 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3389015 Jan 2 00:00 atop_20150101
0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 2 05:25 daily.log
0 -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 2 05:28 dummy_before
0 -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 2 05:28 dummy_after
4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 2 05:28 .
12 drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 12288 Jan 2 05:28 ..
1724 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1761174 Jan 2 10:15 atop_20150102
atop.daily
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