Running through on Xenial. $ sudo apt-get install logrotate/xenial-proposed Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Selected version '3.8.7-2ubuntu2.16.04.1' (Ubuntu:16.04/xenial-proposed [amd64]) for 'logrotate' The following packages will be upgraded: logrotate 1 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 22 not to upgrade. Need to get 37.8 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-proposed/main amd64 logrotate amd64 3.8.7-2ubuntu2.16.04.1 [37.8 kB] Fetched 37.8 kB in 0s (639 kB/s) (Reading database ... 889765 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../logrotate_3.8.7-2ubuntu2.16.04.1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking logrotate (3.8.7-2ubuntu2.16.04.1) over (3.8.7-2ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ... Setting up logrotate (3.8.7-2ubuntu2.16.04.1) ... $ cd /var/log/ $ sudo touch syslog.2 $ ls -l syslog* -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 193861 Apr 25 15:48 syslog -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 586698 Apr 25 07:35 syslog.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 25 15:48 syslog.2 -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 26955 Apr 24 07:35 syslog.2.gz -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 26695 Apr 23 07:35 syslog.3.gz -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 31307 Apr 22 07:35 syslog.4.gz -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 32909 Apr 21 07:35 syslog.5.gz -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 39182 Apr 20 07:35 syslog.6.gz -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 27036 Apr 19 07:35 syslog.7.gz Either things will fail overnight (well first thing tomorrow morning or all will be well. I shall get back in touch soon.
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