Re: Logrotate errors

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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.
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