Control: tags -1 moreinfo unreproducible Hi, I ran your configuration with version 3.14.0-2 and the result looks sane. Are you able to reproduce your issue with version 3.14.0-2?
Best regards Christian Göttsche $ logrotate -v -f /etc/logrotate.d/test reading config file /etc/logrotate.d/test olddir is now rotated Reading state from file: /var/lib/logrotate/status Allocating hash table for state file, size 64 entries Creating new state Creating new state Creating new state Creating new state Handling 2 logs rotating pattern: /var/log/test/*.log forced from command line (2 rotations) empty log files are not rotated, old logs mailed to root considering log /var/log/test/*.log error: stat of /var/log/test/*.log failed: No such file or directory rotating pattern: /var/log/test/old.testlog forced from command line (no old logs will be kept) olddir is rotated, empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed considering log /var/log/test/old.testlog Now: 2018-08-22 22:05 Last rotated at 2018-08-22 22:04 log needs rotating rotating log /var/log/test/old.testlog, log->rotateCount is 0 Converted '' -> '' dateext suffix '' glob pattern '' glob finding old rotated logs failed running prerotate script /var/log/test/old.testlog error: error running non-shared prerotate script for /var/log/test/old.testlog of '/var/log/test/old.testlog '