[gentoo-user] logrotate

[gentoo-user] logrotate

[Uwe Thiem]

Hi folks,

from /etc/logrotate.conf:

-----
# no packages own lastlog or wtmp -- we'll rotate them here
/var/log/wtmp {
    monthly
    create 0664 root utmp
    rotate 1
}
-----

It states it rotates lastlog (/var/log/lastlog) but it doesn't and my lastlog 
grows forever. Doesn't seem right. Anybody else seeing the same or have I 
messed up?

I mean I can easily edit /etc/logrotate.conf but I think it should do that by 
default.

Uwe

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Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

On Wednesday 03 August 2005 12:54, Uwe Thiem wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> from /etc/logrotate.conf:
>
> -----
> # no packages own lastlog or wtmp -- we'll rotate them here
> /var/log/wtmp {
>     monthly
>     create 0664 root utmp
>     rotate 1
> }
> -----
>
> It states it rotates lastlog (/var/log/lastlog) but it doesn't and my
> lastlog grows forever. Doesn't seem right. Anybody else seeing the
> same or have I messed up?

Probably missing something (I don't use logrotate), but seems to me that 
the above fragment only deals with /var/log/wtmp. To 
have /var/log/lastlog rotated, add another section for it.
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Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate

[Uwe Thiem]

On 03 August 2005 12:11, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 August 2005 12:54, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > from /etc/logrotate.conf:
> >
> > -----
> > # no packages own lastlog or wtmp -- we'll rotate them here
> > /var/log/wtmp {
> >     monthly
> >     create 0664 root utmp
> >     rotate 1
> > }
> > -----
> >
> > It states it rotates lastlog (/var/log/lastlog) but it doesn't and my
> > lastlog grows forever. Doesn't seem right. Anybody else seeing the
> > same or have I messed up?
>
> Probably missing something (I don't use logrotate), but seems to me that
> the above fragment only deals with /var/log/wtmp. To
> have /var/log/lastlog rotated, add another section for it.

Are you sure you aren't using it? Have you looked into /etc/cron.daily?

Uwe

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Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

On Wednesday 03 August 2005 16:10, Uwe Thiem wrote:

> Are you sure you aren't using it? Have you looked into
> /etc/cron.daily?

Yes, I'm sure. 

# emerge -s logrotate

*  app-admin/logrotate
      Latest version available: 3.7.1-r1
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of downloaded files: 31 kB
      Homepage:    http://www.gentoo.org
      Description: Rotates, compresses, and mails system logs
      License:     GPL-2

# ls /etc/cron.daily/
slocate  syslog.cron

where syslog.cron is _not_ part of logrotate, but is instead a script (I 
suppose it comes with sysklogd, but I'm not sure) whose purpose, as the 
name says, is to rotate syslog's files. 
Following the comments in it, I modified it to rotate all the files 
in /var/log (it's easy, here are the instructions:

# sysklogd  Cron script to rotate system log files daily.
#
#   If you want to rotate other logfiles daily, edit
#   this script.  An easy way is to add them manually
#   or to add -a to syslogd-listfiles and add some grep
#   stuff
#
#   Written by Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org>.
)

This does the job for me, without the need to use the "real" logrotate 
app.
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Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate

[Richard Fish]

Uwe Thiem wrote:

>On 03 August 2005 12:11, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
>  
>
>>On Wednesday 03 August 2005 12:54, Uwe Thiem wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Hi folks,
>>>
>>>from /etc/logrotate.conf:
>>>
>>>-----
>>># no packages own lastlog or wtmp -- we'll rotate them here
>>>/var/log/wtmp {
>>>    monthly
>>>    create 0664 root utmp
>>>    rotate 1
>>>}
>>>-----
>>>
>>>It states it rotates lastlog (/var/log/lastlog) but it doesn't and my
>>>lastlog grows forever. Doesn't seem right. Anybody else seeing the
>>>same or have I messed up?
>>>      
>>>
>>Probably missing something (I don't use logrotate), but seems to me that
>>the above fragment only deals with /var/log/wtmp. To
>>have /var/log/lastlog rotated, add another section for it.
>>    
>>
>
>Are you sure you aren't using it? Have you looked into /etc/cron.daily?
>
>  
>

Why is lastlog growing forever???  Doesn't that only track the most 
recent logins by userid?  It seems to me that file should only grow if 
you add users.

And Etaoin is correct, that block only rotates /var/log/wtmp.  The 
comment is misleading/wrong.

-Richard

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[gentoo-user] logrotate

[Kaushal Shriyan]

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Hi,

I am using logrotate utility on gentoo to compress catalina.out file. when i
run it using debug mode, I get

#/usr/sbin/logrotate -dv /usr/local/bin/scripts/logrotate-tomcat5-catalina.conf

reading config file /usr/local/bin/scripts/logrotate-tomcat5-catalina.conf
reading config info for /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out
compress_prog is now /bin/gzip

Handling 1 logs

rotating pattern: /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out  after 1 days (7 rotations)

empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out
  log needs rotating
rotating log /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out, log->rotateCount is 7
renaming /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.7.gz to
/var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.8.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 7),

renaming /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.6.gz to
/var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.7.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 6),
renaming /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.5.gz to
/var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.6.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 5),

renaming /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.4.gz to
/var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.5.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 4),
renaming /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.3.gz to
/var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.4.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 3),

renaming /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.2.gz to
/var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.3.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 2),
renaming /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.1.gz to
/var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.2.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 1),

renaming /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.0.gz to
/var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.1.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 0),
copying /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out to /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.1
truncating /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out

error: unable to open /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.1 for compression
#
#cat /usr/local/bin/scripts/logrotate-tomcat5-catalina.conf

/var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out {
        daily

        missingok
        copytruncate
        rotate 7
        compress
        compresscmd /bin/gzip
        notifempty
}
#df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2             112G   27G   85G  24% /

udev                  7.9G  156K  7.9G   1% /dev
shm                   7.9G     0  7.9G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1             479M   44M  411M  10% /boot
# ls -l /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out*
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat 325519875 Sep 26 00:24 /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out
#

Any ideas as what is going wrong

Thanks and Regards

Kaushal

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Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate

[Alan McKinnon]

On Friday 26 September 2008 09:49:57 Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using logrotate utility on gentoo to compress catalina.out file. 

[snip]

> error: unable to open /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.1 for compression

First thing to check is that the user doing this operation has write 
permission to this *directory*, or write permissions to the filesystem it 
resides on


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