Ouch. I was looking at what might go into /etc/logrotate.d but had neglected to consider a symlink '*'.
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 08:37:31AM +0200, Jon Nettleton wrote: > Had to take a look at my server to evaluate. The problem is that in /etc/ > logrotate.d/ there is a symlink '*' pointing to /usr/share/xs > > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Anna <ascho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:48 AM, Jon Nettleton <jon.nettle...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Does it work if you run /etc/cron.daily/logrotate by hand as root? > > > Nope: > > [root@schoolserver] ~ >cd /etc/cron.daily/ > [root@schoolserver] cron.daily >./logrotate > error: failed to open config file *: No such file or directory > error: found error in file *, skipping > > So this is weird to see this in there: > [root@schoolserver] ~ >ls /etc/cron.daily/ > etckeeper logrotate man-db.cron mlocate.cron > > [root@schoolserver] cron.daily >cat logrotate > #!/bin/sh > > /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf > EXITVALUE=$? > if [ $EXITVALUE != 0 ]; then > /usr/bin/logger -t logrotate "ALERT exited abnormally with > [$EXITVALUE] > " > fi > exit 0 > [root@schoolserver] cron.daily >whereis logger > logger: /bin/logger /usr/bin/logger /usr/share/man/man1p/logger.1p.gz > > And there's nothing here: > > [root@schoolserver] ~ >ls /etc/cron.weekly/ > [root@schoolserver] ~ > > > > > > > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Anna <ascho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Jon Nettleton < > jon.nettle...@gmail.com> wrote: > > What does your /etc/logrotate.conf look like? One option for > logrotate is to only rotate if the logs have reached a certain > size. > > > > My understanding was it was supposed to rotate weekly no matter > what. > > [root@schoolserver] ~ >cat /etc/logrotate.conf > # see "man logrotate" for details > # rotate log files weekly > weekly > > # keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs > rotate 4 > > # create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones > create > > # use date as a suffix of the rotated file > dateext > > # uncomment this if you want your log files compressed > #compress > > # RPM packages drop log rotation information into this directory > include /etc/logrotate.d > > # no packages own wtmp and btmp -- we'll rotate them here > /var/log/wtmp { > monthly > create 0664 root utmp > minsize 1M > rotate 1 > } > > /var/log/btmp { > missingok > monthly > create 0600 root utmp > rotate 1 > } > > # system-specific logs may be also be configured here. > > > > > > > -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel