Public bug reported:
(Expected: auth.log, kern.log, syslog rotated "daily"/"weakly" according
to /etd/..., actually: no rotation even after weeks; and manual forcing
may fail.)
Being concerned about the amount of GBs that a Lubuntu persistent
installation on a USB flash drive may write per day, I observed that
auth.log, kern.log, and syslog grow to many MB. They may get about 1000
entries a day, resulting in many GB load for the USB drive per day. I
learnt about logrotate and rsyslog and modified /etc/logrotate.conf and
/etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog. Yet none had any effect.
I have kept USB installations of Lubuntu 14.04.1 in parallel and saved
them after some days, so I could report about a number of experiments.
E.g., I started 2014-08-31, and I have a snapshot from 2014-09-22 where
I had not changed /etc/logrotate.conf, neither /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog
("daily", "weekly"), and the three files still have the entries from
2014-08-31, although three "weeks" had passed.
#51879 (2006) and #1278193 (Feb 2014) are very similar, however:
* I observed growing kern.log and syslog to more than 100MB (to "out of memory"
finally) in some installations in summer 2013; in later installations the same
year and before 14.04, the problem vanished (I watched the sizes
manually/regularly – difference to #51879: after 2006, problem recurred,
vanished, recurred).
* With Lubuntu 14.04.1 recently, I changed "weekly" into "daily" in
/etc/logratate.conf and in /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog, but three days later
auth.log, kern.log, and syslog still had no older copies and still contained
messages from the last three days. Then I did sudo logrotate-f
/etc/logrotate.conf, which works, but still after another three days those
three logs had not been rotated.
Actually I also have tried sudo logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog,
and the result has been exactly as #1258202 (2013). As opposed to the
latter report and that for #1278193, I am unable to guess from which
changes the problems might have resulted.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: logrotate 3.8.7-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-32.57-generic 3.13.11.4
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-32-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.340
CurrentDesktop: LXDE
Date: Sat Oct 25 01:02:40 2014
LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release i386 (20140722.2)
SourcePackage: logrotate
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: logrotate (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 trusty
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Title:
logrotate does not rotate logs (rsyslog)
Status in “logrotate” package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
(Expected: auth.log, kern.log, syslog rotated "daily"/"weakly"
according to /etd/..., actually: no rotation even after weeks; and
manual forcing may fail.)
Being concerned about the amount of GBs that a Lubuntu persistent
installation on a USB flash drive may write per day, I observed that
auth.log, kern.log, and syslog grow to many MB. They may get about
1000 entries a day, resulting in many GB load for the USB drive per
day. I learnt about logrotate and rsyslog and modified
/etc/logrotate.conf and /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog. Yet none had any
effect.
I have kept USB installations of Lubuntu 14.04.1 in parallel and saved
them after some days, so I could report about a number of experiments.
E.g., I started 2014-08-31, and I have a snapshot from 2014-09-22
where I had not changed /etc/logrotate.conf, neither
/etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog ("daily", "weekly"), and the three files
still have the entries from 2014-08-31, although three "weeks" had
passed.
#51879 (2006) and #1278193 (Feb 2014) are very similar, however:
* I observed growing kern.log and syslog to more than 100MB (to "out of
memory" finally) in some installations in summer 2013; in later installations
the same year and before 14.04, the problem vanished (I watched the sizes
manually/regularly – difference to #51879: after 2006, problem recurred,
vanished, recurred).
* With Lubuntu 14.04.1 recently, I changed "weekly" into "daily" in
/etc/logratate.conf and in /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog, but three days later
auth.log, kern.log, and syslog still had no older copies and still contained
messages from the last three days. Then I did sudo logrotate-f
/etc/logrotate.conf, which works, but still after another three days those
three logs had not been rotated.
Actually I also have tried sudo logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog,
and the result has been exactly as #1258202 (2013). As opposed to the
latter report and that for #1278193, I am unable to guess from which
changes the problems might have resulted.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: logrotate 3.8.7-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-32.57-generic 3.13.11.4
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-32-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.340
CurrentDesktop: LXDE
Date: Sat Oct 25 01:02:40 2014
LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release i386 (20140722.2)
SourcePackage: logrotate
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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