From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KjTwW-0004ya-HI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 07:10:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B0599E04FE; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 07:10:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.236]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C2CDE04FE for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 07:10:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id c37so566570wra.26 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:10:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-disposition :message-id:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=B+9ORrUWLbBwvnqDp8V7P+qR6pWbf4FRmGqEp9B5yyE=; b=h1uLrQEf5pM9cqVk7SLz6XRQEMuNIyDzYk602TL1C3r/eZQ62nxZK4CuerQk35EGRZ KWBbyImW58q2R0h5XHTjuv7zJZgoHqNsElomBGedEeiaz2E9xWNgfY8oQNKkzqrNCrNi 8/KjgXgN0pXRlakg8syAnda79QN7fTBTzaLdk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-disposition:message-id:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=km+n6UXNgwiy7eH8K3nKA22UFHgSzDYOJ2KXTEi4vRqXGflfequZ6PGi1UTFrOrAit HqTlopQN50a94VkAAU4FO/9/9T7jSKfeTKrX1wn7jXWb9abyWa8sLGEnw6vYfxR71XTd rQ3gfxmX+5YHTl8VYdIarvJtls4to/JNBnx9I= Received: by 10.65.97.18 with SMTP id z18mr2871577qbl.83.1222499413025; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:10:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.0.0.5? ( [41.243.218.139]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p31sm3926264qbp.18.2008.09.27.00.10.10 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:10:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:10:17 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <6b16fb4c0809260048jb340d36qf5175e272f09b140@mail.gmail.com> <6b16fb4c0809260049g48f42e8co130f9831866611fd@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6b16fb4c0809260049g48f42e8co130f9831866611fd@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200809270910.17599.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c0b2fc53-b580-450c-8d0d-dfd058462f1c X-Archives-Hash: 52e69f32896721fd55b09f00648c94e7 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