Re: logrotate service failing

2024-07-22 Thread Barry
> On 22 Jul 2024, at 15:33, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > > I'm running syslog because that has what has always been running. Unless you need specific syslog features journal is a big improvement. The logs are records with fields, not just a string of text, that allows for smarter searching for ex

Re: logrotate service failing

2024-07-22 Thread Paolo Galtieri
I'm running syslog because that has what has always been running.  This was from before systemd.  Why both rsyslog and syslog-ng were running I have no idea.  I did not intentionally start both, I assumed only one would be running. Paolo On 7/21/24 01:15, Barry wrote: On 21 Jul 2024, at 01

Re: logrotate service failing

2024-07-21 Thread Barry
> On 21 Jul 2024, at 01:20, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > > Actually I have both running. That will not work. Only one must be running. Just to check; are you using syslog because systemd journal is not covering your use-case? If journal is sufficient then remove both the syslog daemons. Barry

Re: logrotate service failing

2024-07-20 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Actually I have both running. Paolo On 7/20/24 16:37, Todd Zullinger wrote: Paolo Galtieri wrote: It's interesting that both packages are available on F39. Is there a reason to have both?  And if only one should be installed which? It's not really different than having multiple web browsers o

Re: logrotate service failing

2024-07-20 Thread Todd Zullinger
Paolo Galtieri wrote: > It's interesting that both packages are available on F39. > Is there a reason to have both?  And if only one should be > installed which? It's not really different than having multiple web browsers or desktop environments. Some folks like rsyslog, some like syslog-ng. You

Re: logrotate service failing

2024-07-20 Thread Paolo Galtieri
It's interesting that both packages are available on F39. Is there a reason to have both?  And if only one should be installed which? Paolo On 7/20/24 14:27, Todd Zullinger wrote: Go Canes wrote: On Sat, Jul 20, 2024 at 3:49 PM Paolo Galtieri wrote: I wonder then if this is an issue due to

Re: logrotate service failing

2024-07-20 Thread Todd Zullinger
Go Canes wrote: > On Sat, Jul 20, 2024 at 3:49 PM Paolo Galtieri wrote: >> >> I wonder then if this is an issue due to dnf upgrade? I've used dnf >> upgrade to upgrade my system since at least F35. I wonder if at some >> point there was a syslog file which then became rsyslog and the old >> sysl

Re: logrotate service failing

2024-07-20 Thread Go Canes
On Sat, Jul 20, 2024 at 3:49 PM Paolo Galtieri wrote: > > I wonder then if this is an issue due to dnf upgrade? I've used dnf > upgrade to upgrade my system since at least F35. I wonder if at some > point there was a syslog file which then became rsyslog and the old > syslog file was never remov

Re: logrotate service failing

2024-07-20 Thread Paolo Galtieri
I wonder then if this is an issue due to dnf upgrade?  I've used dnf upgrade to upgrade my system since at least F35.  I wonder if at some point there was a syslog file which then became rsyslog and the old syslog file was never removed. Paolo On 7/20/24 12:33, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sat, 20

Re: logrotate service failing

2024-07-20 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 20 Jul 2024 12:05:10 -0700 Paolo Galtieri wrote: > A little investigation showed the following in /etc/logrotate.d > > rsyslog:/var/log/messages > syslog:/var/log/messages I don't have a syslog file in my /etc/logrotate.d, only rsyslog. I'm running fedora 40 and logrotate seems to be wo

logrotate service failing

2024-07-20 Thread Paolo Galtieri
I have updated my system using dnf upgrade for several releases.  I am currently running F39.  Today I was looking at my running services and noticed that the logrotate.service is failing to start due to the following error: Jul 20 11:49:41 caseyjones.homenet192-168-10.com logrotate[307129]: