On 2019-09-19 11:03:36 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2019-09-18 12:52:32 +0200, Christian Göttsche wrote: > > If yes, please share 'systemctl status logrotate.timer' and > > 'journalctl -u logrotate' (the most recent part of it). > > ● logrotate.timer - Daily rotation of log files > Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/logrotate.timer; enabled; vendor > preset: enabled) > Active: active (waiting) since Thu 2019-09-19 10:25:10 CEST; 32min ago > Trigger: Fri 2019-09-20 00:00:00 CEST; 13h left > Docs: man:logrotate(8) > man:logrotate.conf(5) > > Sep 19 10:25:10 cventin systemd[1]: Started Daily rotation of log files. > > [...] > Sep 16 00:00:01 cventin systemd[1]: Starting Rotate log files... > Sep 16 00:00:02 cventin systemd[1]: logrotate.service: Succeeded. > Sep 16 00:00:02 cventin systemd[1]: Started Rotate log files. > Sep 17 00:00:01 cventin systemd[1]: Starting Rotate log files... > Sep 17 00:00:03 cventin systemd[1]: logrotate.service: Succeeded. > Sep 17 00:00:03 cventin systemd[1]: Started Rotate log files. > Sep 18 00:00:01 cventin systemd[1]: Starting Rotate log files... > Sep 18 00:00:01 cventin logrotate[16206]: error: Compressing program wrote > following message to stderr when compressing log /var/log/apache2/error.log.1: > Sep 18 00:00:01 cventin logrotate[16206]: gzip: stdin: warning: file > timestamp out of range for gzip format > Sep 18 00:00:01 cventin logrotate[16206]: error: failed to compress log > /var/log/apache2/error.log.1 > Sep 18 00:00:02 cventin systemd[1]: logrotate.service: Main process exited, > code=exited, status=1/FAILURE > Sep 18 00:00:02 cventin systemd[1]: logrotate.service: Failed with result > 'exit-code'. > Sep 18 00:00:02 cventin systemd[1]: Failed to start Rotate log files. > Sep 19 00:00:01 cventin systemd[1]: Starting Rotate log files... > Sep 19 00:00:02 cventin logrotate[19728]: error: Compressing program wrote > following message to stderr when compressing log /var/log/apache2/error.log.1: > Sep 19 00:00:02 cventin logrotate[19728]: gzip: stdin: warning: file > timestamp out of range for gzip format > Sep 19 00:00:02 cventin logrotate[19728]: error: failed to compress log > /var/log/apache2/error.log.1 > Sep 19 00:00:02 cventin systemd[1]: logrotate.service: Main process exited, > code=exited, status=1/FAILURE > Sep 19 00:00:02 cventin systemd[1]: logrotate.service: Failed with result > 'exit-code'. > Sep 19 00:00:02 cventin systemd[1]: Failed to start Rotate log files.
So, the rotation occurs at midnight, according to the systemd timer. This conflicts with the crontab configuration. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
