Logrotate, by default, runs daily (not hourly) and renames the log files
that it rotates by appending to them the current date. In your case, you
are running it hourly, so it only runs successfully only once a day. The
second time that it will attempt to run in the same day, it will find that
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
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 sjt5a...@gmail.com 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
From: C. L. Martinez carlopm...@gmail.com
destination /srv/www2/logs/viewer.log-20140409 already exists, skipping
rotation
I'd think logrotate does not expect to find an already existing half-rotated
file?
Maybe this file is supposed to be compressed '.gz'?
Can you show ls -l
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