Yep, Marios and Steven are right ... I have changed dateformat for one log file and I have done another test changing time rotations ... And all works ok. Many thanks for your help. On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 12:09 AM, Steven Tardy <sjt5atra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > http://svn.fedorahosted.org/svn/logrotate/tags/r3-8-5/logrotate.8 > shows "hourly" as a .conf option was added to 3.8.5... > > current centos 6 version is logrotate-3.7.8-17.el6.x86_64 > > centos6$ man logrotate: > dateformat format_string > Specify the extension for dateext using the notation similar > to > strftime(3) function. Only %Y %m %d and %s specifiers > are > allowed. > > in your .conf try: > dateformat -%s > > > > On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 2:45 AM, C. L. Martinez <carlopmart@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I have a problem with logrotate and I don't know why. In >> /var/log/messages appears these errors: >> >> Apr 8 15:01:01 plzfnsm02 logrotate: ALERT exited abnormally with [1] >> Apr 8 16:01:01 plzfnsm02 logrotate: ALERT exited abnormally with [1] >> Apr 8 17:01:01 plzfnsm02 logrotate: ALERT exited abnormally with [1] >> Apr 8 18:01:01 plzfnsm02 logrotate: ALERT exited abnormally with [1] >> Apr 8 19:01:01 plzfnsm02 logrotate: ALERT exited abnormally with [1] >> Apr 8 20:01:02 plzfnsm02 logrotate: ALERT exited abnormally with [1] >> Apr 8 21:01:01 plzfnsm02 logrotate: ALERT exited abnormally with [1] >> Apr 8 22:01:01 plzfnsm02 logrotate: ALERT exited abnormally with [1] >> Apr 8 23:01:01 plzfnsm02 logrotate: ALERT exited abnormally with [1] >> >> It seems the problem if with this logrotate.conf (executed every hour): >> >> create >> dateext >> >> /srv/www2/logs/viewer.log { >> size 512k >> create 0640 www www >> missingok >> rotate 7 >> compress >> delaycompress >> copytruncate >> notifempty >> } >> >> Doing a debug: >> >> [root@www02 ~]# logrotate /data/config/etc/logrotate.conf -dv >> reading config file /data/config/etc/logrotate.conf >> reading config info for /nsm/moloch/logs/viewer.log >> >> Handling 1 logs >> >> rotating pattern: /srv/www2/logs/viewer.log 524288 bytes (7 rotations) >> empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed >> considering log /srv/www2/logs/viewer.log >> log needs rotating >> rotating log /srv/www2/logs/viewer.log, log->rotateCount is 7 >> dateext suffix '-20140409' >> glob pattern '-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]' >> glob finding logs to compress failed >> destination /srv/www2/logs/viewer.log-20140409 already exists, skipping >> rotation >> >> According to this kb from redhat's website: >> >> https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/39006 >> >> problem could be selinux. But SElinux is disabled: >> >> [root@www02 ~]# sestatus >> SELinux status: disabled >> [root@www02 ~]# >> >> Any idea?? Could be a bug?? >> >> Host is a CentOS 6.5 x86_64 fully patched. >> >> Thanks. >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos