I assume the affected system is a live USB/installer system? It is not quite obvious from the description.
I am having the same issue of missing logrotation when using the Ubuntu Desktop 14.04.3 LTS installer (http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.04.3/ubuntu-14.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso) as basis for a demonstration/test setup. Seeing my logs accumulating I tried to configure logrotate but was puzzled when seeing it already configured and cron seems to run cron.daily according to log (.1 is caused by me running logrotate manually): ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ grep cron.daily /var/log/syslog* ... /var/log/syslog.1:Jan 11 06:25:01 ubuntu CRON[19057]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )) /var/log/syslog.1:Jan 12 06:25:01 ubuntu CRON[20265]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )) /var/log/syslog.1:Jan 13 06:25:01 ubuntu CRON[21361]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )) Digged a lot to find out /usr/sbin/anacron was intentionally diverted using dpkg-divert, but haven't found out yet if and how this affects the cron.daily execution; ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ dpkg-divert --list|grep anacron local diversion of /usr/sbin/anacron to /usr/sbin/anacron.distrib ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ls -l /usr/sbin/anacron lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Nov 18 14:11 /usr/sbin/anacron -> /bin/true -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1385537 Title: logrotate does not rotate logs (rsyslog) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/logrotate/+bug/1385537/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
