Since installing RHEL ES4, logrotate doesn't seem to work at all. It
emails me when it is invoked, and the output indicates that it worked,
but it doesn't. I can't figure out what is wrong, or even how to proceed
to figure it out.
This is how logrotate is invoked:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/logrotate -dvf /etc/logrotate.conf
EXITVALUE=$?
if [ $EXITVALUE != 0 ]; then
/usr/bin/logger -t logrotate "ALERT exited abnormally with
[$EXITVALUE]"
fi
exit 0
[I added the 'f' option to see if I could force it to work. It won't.]
This is what is part of my logrotate.conf:
/home/httpd/logs/error_log /home/httpd/logs/access_log
/home/httpd/logs/AsA_access_log /home/httpd/logs/AsA_error_log
/var/log/httpd/*log {
missingok
monthly
rotate 14
sharedscripts
postrotate
/bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/httpd.pid 2>/dev/null` 2>
/dev/null || true
endscript
}
(sorry about the word wrap in this email. this isn't a problem in the
conf file itself).
When it is run, this is the output (abbreviated):
rotating log /home/httpd/logs/access_log, log->rotateCount is 13
renaming /home/httpd/logs/access_log.13 to
/home/httpd/logs/access_log.14 (rotatecount 13, logstart 1, i 13),
renaming /home/httpd/logs/access_log.12 to
/home/httpd/logs/access_log.13 (rotatecount 13, logstart 1, i 12),
renaming /home/httpd/logs/access_log.11 to
/home/httpd/logs/access_log.12 (rotatecount 13, logstart 1, i 11),
renaming /home/httpd/logs/access_log.10 to
/home/httpd/logs/access_log.11 (rotatecount 13, logstart 1, i 10),
renaming /home/httpd/logs/access_log.9 to /home/httpd/logs/access_log.10
(rotatecount 13, logstart 1, i 9),
renaming /home/httpd/logs/access_log.8 to /home/httpd/logs/access_log.9
(rotatecount 13, logstart 1, i 8),
renaming /home/httpd/logs/access_log.7 to /home/httpd/logs/access_log.8
(rotatecount 13, logstart 1, i 7),
renaming /home/httpd/logs/access_log.6 to /home/httpd/logs/access_log.7
(rotatecount 13, logstart 1, i 6),
renaming /home/httpd/logs/access_log.5 to /home/httpd/logs/access_log.6
(rotatecount 13, logstart 1, i 5),
renaming /home/httpd/logs/access_log.4 to /home/httpd/logs/access_log.5
(rotatecount 13, logstart 1, i 4),
renaming /home/httpd/logs/access_log.3 to /home/httpd/logs/access_log.4
(rotatecount 13, logstart 1, i 3),
renaming /home/httpd/logs/access_log.2 to /home/httpd/logs/access_log.3
(rotatecount 13, logstart 1, i 2),
renaming /home/httpd/logs/access_log.1 to /home/httpd/logs/access_log.2
(rotatecount 13, logstart 1, i 1),
renaming /home/httpd/logs/access_log.0 to /home/httpd/logs/access_log.1
(rotatecount 13, logstart 1, i 0),
renaming /home/httpd/logs/access_log to /home/httpd/logs/access_log.1
creating new log mode = 0775 uid = 0 gid = 500
removing old log /home/httpd/logs/access_log.14
The output indicates that the rotation took place, but it didn't:
[root@aa cron.daily]# ll -h /home/httpd/logs/access_log*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root AA 2.2G Jun 1 09:02 /home/httpd/logs/access_log
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root AA 1.5G Apr 1 00:03 /home/httpd/logs/access_log.1
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root AA 794M Jul 1 2004 /home/httpd/logs/access_log.10
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root AA 849M Jun 1 2004 /home/httpd/logs/access_log.11
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root AA 974M May 1 2004 /home/httpd/logs/access_log.12
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root AA 1.2G Apr 1 2004 /home/httpd/logs/access_log.13
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root AA 1.3G Mar 1 00:03 /home/httpd/logs/access_log.2
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root AA 1.3G Feb 1 00:02 /home/httpd/logs/access_log.3
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root AA 1.2G Jan 1 00:02 /home/httpd/logs/access_log.4
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root AA 1.3G Dec 1 00:03 /home/httpd/logs/access_log.5
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root AA 1.3G Oct 31 2004 /home/httpd/logs/access_log.6
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root AA 1.2G Oct 1 2004 /home/httpd/logs/access_log.7
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root AA 812M Sep 1 2004 /home/httpd/logs/access_log.8
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root AA 758M Aug 1 2004 /home/httpd/logs/access_log.9
I am having the same problems with the system logs. Any ideas on what
might be the problem?
TIA,
Bill Tangren
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