On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 6:57 PM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am perplexed why box of mine will not logrotate system logs, which have now > grown into gigs. kern.log, syslog, messages, etc. are eating up space > unconstrained, to the point where the partition run out of it. > > Trying to run /etc/cron.daily/logrotate from a terminal does not show anything > in messages, or syslog. > > Particulars below: > > # ls -la /etc/cron.daily/logrotate > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 179 Feb 12 16:09 /etc/cron.daily/logrotate > > > # cat /etc/cron.daily/logrotate > #!/bin/sh > > /usr/bin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf > EXITVALUE=$? > if [ $EXITVALUE != 0 ]; then > /usr/bin/logger -t logrotate "ALERT exited abnormally with [$EXITVALUE]" > fi > exit 0 > > > This is an installation I have not really changed much from default settings. > Comparing with other systems which work as expected I can't see anything > amiss. How could I troubleshoot/fix this problem? > > -- > Regards, > Mick
I had a similar problem a while back, and Alex Corkwell suggested removing the executable bit on /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron, which did the trick for me. See gentoo-user archives for an email exchange with 'portage summary logs not rotated any more' as the subject for full details. Hope this helps.
