* Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate desn't create new empty files
@ 2007-08-04 10:09 99% ` Mick
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From: Mick @ 2007-08-04 10:09 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Saturday 04 August 2007 09:29, Jakob wrote:
> > from LOGROTATE(8):
> >
> > Here is more information on the directives which may be included in a
> > logrotate configuration file:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > copy Make a copy of the log file, but don't change the original at
> > all. This option can be used, for instance, to make a
> > snapshot of the current log file, or when some other utility needs to
> > truncate or pare the file. When this option is used, the create option
> > will have no effect, as the old log file stays in place. --
> > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
>
> Thanks for that, I deleated copy, but it seams that the problem stays :-(
Look for a dead.letter file in /root which may contain any errors of the
logrotate script. In my system there is /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng which
contains:
===================================
#
$Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-admin/syslog-ng/files/syslog-ng.logrotate,v
1.2 2004/07/18 02:25:02 dragonheart Exp $
#
# Syslog-ng logrotate snippet for Gentoo Linux
# contributed by Michael Sterrett
#
/var/log/messages {
sharedscripts
postrotate
/etc/init.d/syslog-ng reload > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
endscript
}
===================================
It seems to rotate the messages log file fine and create compressed backups
within /var/log. If you have both scripts then there may be a conflict which
would probably be captured in dead.letter.
HTH.
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Regards,
Mick
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