I have not managed to understand why my log file /var/log/krb5kdc/krb5kdc.log gets deleted.
However my "solution" is to use the old path, i.e. /var/log/krb5kdc.log root@mymaster:~# grep log /etc/krb5.conf /etc/krb5kdc/kdc.conf /etc/krb5.conf:[login] /etc/krb5.conf:[logging] /etc/krb5.conf: kdc = FILE:/var/log/krb5kdc.log /etc/krb5.conf: admin_server = FILE:/var/log/kadmin.log and to have in place the rotation below: root@mymaster:~# cat /etc/logrotate.d/krb5kdc /var/log/krb5kdc.log { missingok notifempty monthly rotate 12 compress create 644 root root postrotate /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/krb5kdc.pid 2>/dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true endscript } This approach has worked since yesterday (the file has not got deleted): root@mymaster:~# ls -lh /var/log/krb5kdc.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 155M Mar 1 10:40 /var/log/krb5kdc.log Thank you very much. All the best, Giuseppe P.S. I should say that the ownership on the dir /var/log is root.syslog and not root.root on my machine: root@mymaster:~# ls -ldh /var/log drwxrwxr-x 14 root syslog 4.0K Mar 1 06:25 /var/log I do not know whether it matters. ________________________________________________ Kerberos mailing list Kerberos@mit.edu https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos