I have been trying to determine the cause for logs not rotating.
Syslog is not rotating at all.
logrotate will only work if I manually run the command. It originally would not work at all, until first running it with force command. Now force command is not needed, but I still have to run it manually.
How can I easily verify cron daily is running? I see it listed when running top.
Some Info:
Code:ls -alt cron.daily total 24 drwxr-xr-x 77 root root 4096 2010-04-29 21:15 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-04-06 13:31 . -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 904 2010-01-02 10:45 spamassassin -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1154 2009-12-04 13:18 ntp -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 89 2008-10-09 13:14 logrotate -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1309 2007-11-23 04:06 sysklogdCode:/etc$ cat cron.daily/logrotate #!/bin/sh test -x /usr/sbin/logrotate || exit 0 /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.confCode:cat cron.daily/sysklogd #! /bin/sh # sysklogd Cron script to rotate system log files daily. # # If you want to rotate other logfiles daily, edit # this script. An easy way is to add files manually, # to add -a (for all log files) to syslogd-listfiles and # add some grep stuff, or use the -s pattern argument to # specify files that must not be listed. # # This is a configration file. You are invited to edit # it and maintain it on your own. You'll have to do # that if you don't like the default policy # wrt. rotating logfiles (i.e. with large logfiles # weekly and daily rotation may interfere). If you edit # this file and don't let dpkg upgrade it, you have full # control over it. Please read the manpage to # syslogd-listfiles. # # Written by Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org>. # $Id: cron.daily,v 1.14 2007-05-28 16:33:34 joey Exp $ test -x /usr/sbin/syslogd-listfiles || exit 0 test -x /sbin/syslogd || exit 0 test -f /usr/share/sysklogd/dummy || exit 0 USER=$(ps -C syslogd -o user= | head -n 1) [ -z "${USER}" ] && USER="root" || true set -e cd /var/log logs=$(syslogd-listfiles) test -n "$logs" || exit 0 for LOG in $logs do if [ -s $LOG ]; then savelog -g adm -m 640 -u ${USER} -c 7 $LOG >/dev/null fi done # Restart syslogd # /etc/init.d/sysklogd reload-or-restart > /dev/null
Code:sudo /usr/sbin/syslogd-listfiles --weekly /var/log/mail.warn /var/log/user.log /var/log/daemon.log /var/log/messages /var/log/debug /var/logauth.log /var/logmail.err /var/log/mail.log /var/log/kern.log /var/log/lpr.log /var/log/mail.info
I also added this, which is the only mod I made.
Any and all help is appreciated.Code:cat logrotate.d/webcit /var/log/mail.* { weekly missingok rotate 7 sharedscripts postrotate [ ! -f /var/run/syslogd.pid ] || kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid` endscript compress notifempty }
So I think logrotate may work, it is possible cron is the fault?
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Originally Posted by clancyhood
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