[ale] SuSE 9.0 Pro - logrotate not rotating logs

[Dow Hurst]

You'll have to track down if it exists in the cron job scripts.  I bet it is 
missing and so never runs.
Dow


BruceG wrote:
> Hey all, I'm running SuSE 9.0 Pro and have noticed that my logs aren't doing 
> the logrotate shuffle. 
> 
> When I do a whereis, I see it is installed:
> bgriffis at CaptainHaddock:~> whereis logrotate
> logrotate: /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.d /etc/logrotate.conf /usr/
> share/man/man8/logrotate.8.gz
> 
> YaST tells me the version is: 3.6.6-91
> 
> My scripts are in /etc/logrotate.d
> Here is one script I am trying to make sure is run.
> bgriffis at CaptainHaddock:/etc/logrotate.d> more linksysmon
> /var/log/linksys.log {
>     missingok
>     postrotate
>         /etc/init.d/linksysmon restart > /dev/null || /bin/true
>     endscript
> }
> 
> And logrotate.conf is in /etc
> bgriffis at CaptainHaddock:/etc> more 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
> 
> # uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
> #compress
> 
> # uncomment these to switch compression to bzip2
> #compresscmd /usr/bin/bzip2
> #uncompresscmd /usr/bin/bunzip2
> 
> # RPM packages drop log rotation information into this directory
> include /etc/logrotate.d
> 
> # no packages own wtmp -- we'll rotate them here
> #/var/log/wtmp {
> #    monthly
> #    create 0664 root utmp
> #    rotate 1
> #}
> 
> # system-specific logs may be also be configured here.
> 
> ************************************************************
> I don't know where to look next. How do I check if my permissions are correct? 
> When I look at the files in logrotate.d, where is what it shows:
> bgriffis at CaptainHaddock:/etc/logrotate.d> ls -al
> total 38
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          256 2004-04-19 21:59 .
> drwxr-xr-x   56 root     root         5976 2004-04-21 13:19 ..
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          139 2003-01-19 20:33 i4l-isdnlog
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          125 2004-04-18 22:42 linksysmon
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          439 2003-09-23 19:17 samba
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          584 2003-09-23 12:52 syslog
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          221 2003-09-23 14:31 ucdsnmp
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          134 2003-09-23 13:18 wtmp
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          140 2003-09-23 15:36 xdm
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          187 2003-09-23 13:38 xntp
> 
> Can anyone point me in the right direction? I'm guessing by looking at 
> logrotate.conf, that I can set the rotation schedule to daily or weekly. Does 
> that mean it renames the old log file then creates a new one? That is what I 
> expect, but it isn't happening.
> BruceG
> 
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