Re: can't rotate logs
DragonDon wrote: > I have setup logrotate and forgot to setup the cron job. Part of my > troubleshooting was to run it manually but I get a bunch of permission > errors http://paste.debian.net/179771/. The relevant ones are these (which it would have been more helpful to paste here) - $ sudo /usr/sbin/logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.conf error: error creating output file /var/log/exim4/mainlog.1.gz: File exists error: error creating output file /var/log/fail2ban.log.1.gz: File exists ... error: error creating output file /var/log/messages.1.gz: File exists error: error creating output file /var/log/tor/log.1.gz: File exists > I was running it manually with 'sudo /usr/sbin/logrotate -f > /etc/logrotate.conf' The reasons for these errors are not at all obvious until you have come across them once before. Take the exim4 error as a worked example. The process is (very approximately) this - 1. rename mainlog to mainlog.1 2. create a new empty mainlog 3. compress mainlog.1 (to mainlog.1.gz) What happens here is that the compression code finds that mainlog.1.gz already exists, so it cannot (will not) overwrite it while compressing mainlog.1. Instead, it stops with a "File exists" error. You can try this for yourself like this - date > date.txt gzip date.txt date > data.txt gzip date.txt The solution in each of the error instances is to decide which of X and X.gz you want to keep, as you can't have both. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/rvgnd9xvo6@news.roaima.co.uk
Re: can't rotate logs
On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 22:22:40 +0900, DragonDon wrote: > I have setup logrotate and forgot to setup the cron job. Mmm, I don't recall that's needed :-? > Part of my troubleshooting was to run it manually but I get a bunch of > permission errors http://paste.debian.net/179771/. I think permission errors were because you first run the command as a plain user. And these: dragondon@FireBreather:~$ sudo /usr/sbin/logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.conf error: error creating output file /var/log/exim4/mainlog.1.gz: File exists error: error creating output file /var/log/fail2ban.log.1.gz: File exists error: error creating output file /var/log/syslog.1.gz: File exists error: error creating output file /var/log/daemon.log.1.gz: File exists error: error creating output file /var/log/kern.log.1.gz: File exists error: error creating output file /var/log/auth.log.1.gz: File exists error: error creating output file /var/log/user.log.1.gz: File exists error: error creating output file /var/log/debug.1.gz: File exists error: error creating output file /var/log/messages.1.gz: File exists error: error creating output file /var/log/tor/log.1.gz: File exists I also guess that's the expected when the archived files already exist. > I was running it manually with 'sudo /usr/sbin/logrotate -f > /etc/logrotate.conf' > > Help? It's not clear to me what's the problem here :-? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ju9f3f$nho$1...@dough.gmane.org
can't rotate logs
I have setup logrotate and forgot to setup the cron job. Part of my troubleshooting was to run it manually but I get a bunch of permission errors http://paste.debian.net/179771/. I was running it manually with 'sudo /usr/sbin/logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.conf' Help? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAAh+W0Ct+KDfWJvmO=xvplty8wcrg5hgdvqw-87zbvvh7uw...@mail.gmail.com
