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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:10:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200809270910.17599.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6b16fb4c0809260049g48f42e8co130f9831866611fd@mail.gmail.com>

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


-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com



  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-27  7:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <6b16fb4c0809260048jb340d36qf5175e272f09b140@mail.gmail.com>
2008-09-26  7:49 ` [gentoo-user] logrotate Kaushal Shriyan
2008-09-27  7:10   ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2005-08-03 10:54 Uwe Thiem
2005-08-03 11:11 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2005-08-03 14:10   ` Uwe Thiem
2005-08-03 14:32     ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2005-08-04 12:54     ` Richard Fish

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