Jim, Cron and Logrotate already installed in my machine and already configured as the steps you enlisted. But still logrotate is not running.
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 12:28:31 -0700 > From: Jim Lucas <li...@cmsws.com> > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Log rotate not working > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> > Message-ID: <519bcadf.1000...@cmsws.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > On 5/21/2013 11:54 AM, Ahmed Munir wrote: > > Checked in /var/logs/ directory, all logs are not rotating by logrotate. > > Please advise how can I overcome this issue as I'm using CentoOS 5 > > Ahmed, > > Proper log rotation depends on a couple things working together > correctly to get the job done. First, you need to make sure you have > the space to rotate the logs. If you have compression enabled, > logrotate creates a copy of the file(s) as it compresses them. You > could be running out of space??? > > Next you need to verify that everything is in place, follow these steps > to do so. Keep in mind that I have CentOS 6.4. So the packages might > differ a little in the name and surely in the version numbering. > > 1) Verify logrotate is installed to your system. > # yum install logrotate > > if it asks you to install it, do so. > > 2) Verify that crond is installed and running. > Below is the output I get when searching yum to see if crond is > installed. If your query returns nothing then crond is not installed. > > [root@jim etc]# yum list all | grep ^cron | grep "@" > cronie.x86_64 1.4.4-7.el6 > @anaconda-CentOS-201303020151.x86_64/6.4 > cronie-anacron.x86_64 1.4.4-7.el6 > @anaconda-CentOS-201303020151.x86_64/6.4 > crontabs.noarch 1.10-33.el6 > @anaconda-CentOS-201303020151.x86_64/6.4 > > If crond is not installed, then you will need to install it. Once > you have it installed, move on to the next step. > > 3) Make sure crond is setup to start at boot time. > > chkconfig crond on > > 4) Verify that logrotate is in one of the cron include folders. Mine > is located in the cron.daily folder. > > [root@jim etc]# find /etc/*/logrotate > /etc/cron.daily/logrotate > > If you don't find that the above file exists, you might need to > re-install logrotate. > > Next I would've had you verify that you have a config file in > /etc/logrotate.d/ for the asterisk log files. But it seems you already > to. After all this, if it still isn't working, double check all the > steps above. > > Let us know if this does or doesn't help. > > -- > Jim Lucas > > > > -- Regards, Ahmed Munir Chohan
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