[gentoo-user] logrotate won't rotate portage logs

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

Hi All,

I do not understand why the log files within /var/log/portage/ will
not rotate on my PC, while they rotate fine on my laptop.  The
/etc/logrotate.conf is the same on both boxen:
==========================================
# rotate log files weekly
weekly
#daily

# keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs
rotate 4

# create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
create

# uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
compress

# packages can drop log rotation information into this directory
include /etc/logrotate.d

notifempty
nomail
noolddir

[snip . . . ]

# when /var/log/portage gets big
/var/log/portage/*.log
{
    rotate 1
    weekly
    nocreate
    ifempty
    olddir /var/log/portage/old
    postrotate
 find /var/log/portage/old -maxdepth 1 -mtime +30 -exec /bin/rm -f {} \;
    endscript
    nocompress
}
==========================================

The only difference I noticed (other than the fact that I have two
year old portage log files in /var/log/portage) between the two boxen
is that the access rights of the 'old'  directory on the PC were:

drwxr-sr-x 2 root    root          48 Dec 23  2005 old

while on the laptop which rotates without problems are:

drwx------ 2 root    root          4256 Jan 13  11:20 old

This may be a bit of a red herring because even though I changed the
access rights as per the laptop, the PC still refuses to rotate the
portage log files.

Any ideas?  How do I troubleshoot this one?
-- 
Regards,
Mick
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