/var/log/messages etc. not rotated

[Toralf Lund <toralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I suddenly realised that /var/log/messages and some related logs are 
never rotated on one of our Red Hat Linux 9 setups. The relevant lines 
from 'logrotate -d' are included below. As far as I can tell from these 
messages, the files should be correctly setup for weekly rotation, but I 
have no /var/log/messages.1, /var/log/messages.2 etc., and similar for 
the other logs. Any ideas why?


rotating pattern: /var/log/messages /var/log/secure /var/log/maillog 
/var/log/spooler /var/log/boot.log /var/log/cron  weekly (4 rotations)
empty log files are rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /var/log/messages
 log does not need rotating
considering log /var/log/secure
 log does not need rotating
considering log /var/log/maillog
 log does not need rotating
considering log /var/log/spooler
 log does not need rotating
considering log /var/log/boot.log
 log does not need rotating
considering log /var/log/cron
 log does not need rotating
not running shared postrotate script, since no logs were rotated



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