logrotate failing running postrotate script

[Fireminds Ltd.]

Hi All,

I recently just started getting these errors in an email from my server:

/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
exim: no process killed
error: error running non-shared postrotate script for /var/log/exim_mainlog of '/var/log/exim_mainlog '
exim: no process killed
error: error running non-shared postrotate script for /var/log/exim_paniclog of '/var/log/exim_paniclog '
exim: no process killed
error: error running non-shared postrotate script for /var/log/exim_rejectlog of '/var/log/exim_rejectlog '


The logrotate conf file is all set to default at the moment. Never got these in the past, only recently. Tried running a yum update of logrotate but no updates available. Any ideas what could be the problem?

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello,

Could you run the following commands and let us know the output?

cat /etc/cron.daily/logrotate
cat /etc/logrotate.conf

Thank you.

 

[Fireminds Ltd.]

Here is the output:


[[email protected] user]# cat /etc/cron.daily/logrotate
#!/bin/sh
export TMPDIR=/var/spool/logrotate/tmp

/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf
EXITVALUE=$?
if [ $EXITVALUE != 0 ]; then
/usr/bin/logger -t logrotate "ALERT exited abnormally with [$EXITVALUE]"
fi
exit 0
[[email protected] user]# cat /etc/logrotate.conf
# see "man logrotate" for details
# rotate log files weekly
weekly

# keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs
rotate 4

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

# use date as a suffix of the rotated file
dateext

# uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
#compress

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

# no packages own wtmp and btmp -- we'll rotate them here
/var/log/wtmp {
monthly
create 0664 root utmp
minsize 1M
rotate 1
}

/var/log/btmp {
missingok
monthly
create 0600 root utmp
rotate 1
}

# system-specific logs may be also be configured here.

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello,

Do you have Exim disabled on this system in "WHM >> Service Manager"? If so, you can empty the /etc/logrotate.d/exim file to avoid those error messages with the following command:

echo -n > /etc/logrotate.d/exim

Then, if you decide to enable Exim again in the future, repopulate the file with the following commands:

rm /etc/logrotate.d/exim
/scripts/check_cpanel_rpms --fix

Thank you.