I am also seing this on a 14.04 server using logrotate package version
3.8.7-1ubuntu1:
$ dpkg -l|grep logrotate
ii logrotate 3.8.7-1ubuntu1
amd64 Log rotation utility
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty
Execution of logrotate from cron.daily aborts because of an existing file. Mail
from cron below ("Filen eksisterer" is Danish for "File exists"):
/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
error: error creating output file /var/log/syslog.1.gz: Filen eksisterer
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1
Looking at the syslog files there is both a syslog.1 and a syslog.1.gz
where the latter shouldn't exist because of delaycompress option. Also
the .gz is a compressed version of the plain file:
$ gunzip --stdout /var/log/syslog.1.gz | diff --report-identical-files -
/var/log/syslog.1
Files - and /var/log/syslog.1 are identical
This suggests that logrotate was most likely interrupted after compressing
syslog.1 to syslog.1.gz but before it was moved/rotated into syslog.2.gz. On
subsequent executions this stale file causes logrotate to abort rotation
entirely.
The issue has been addressed in recent upstream releases;
https://github.com/logrotate/logrotate/pull/23
Also discussed in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-
bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=734688
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Logrotate fails repeatedly with /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: error:
error creating output file /var/log/... File exists run-parts:
/etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1
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