Logrotate Not Compressing the Logs

[lloyd_tennison]

Yet I have:

# 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

# uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
compress

as the start of my logrotate.conf. The logs rotate - just do not compress.

Thoughts?

Correction: Some logs do rotate and compress. No Exim logs do.


/etc/logrotate.d/exim is as follows:

/var/log/exim_mainlog {
    create 0640 mailnull mail
    compress
    postrotate
    /usr/bin/killall -HUP exim
    endscript
}
/var/log/exim_paniclog {
    missingok
    create 0640 mailnull mail
    compress
    postrotate
    /usr/bin/killall -HUP exim
    endscript
}
/var/log/exim_rejectlog {
    create 0640 mailnull mail
    compress
    postrotate
    /usr/bin/killall -HUP exim
    endscript
}

which also clearly says compress.

 

[chirpy]

Just to check, is this line in your /etc/logrotate.conf:

include /etc/logrotate.d

I don't have compress enabled in logrotate.conf and my exim logs are always rotated with the directive within /etc/logrotate.d/exim

 

[lloyd_tennison]

Yes, it is, and all the other logs rotate that have commands in that directory.

 

[nathacof]

I have a customer who is on a Virtual Private Server.

[email protected] [/var/log]# cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora Core release 4 (Stentz)
[email protected] [/var/log]#

cPanel v. 10.2.0

Same problem /etc/logrotate.d/exim follows:

[email protected] [/var/log]# cat /etc/logrotate.d/exim
/var/log/exim_mainlog {
create 0640 mailnull mail
compress
postrotate
/usr/bin/killall -HUP exim
endscript
}
/var/log/exim_paniclog {
missingok
create 0640 mailnull mail
compress
postrotate
/usr/bin/killall -HUP exim
endscript
}
/var/log/exim_rejectlog {
create 0640 mailnull mail
compress
postrotate
/usr/bin/killall -HUP exim
endscript
}

[email protected] [/var/log]#


Excerpt from /var/log/messages :

Apr 30 05:56:01 h101606 logrotate: ALERT exited abnormally with [1]
May 1 05:56:01 h101606 logrotate: ALERT exited abnormally with [1]
May 2 05:56:01 h101606 logrotate: ALERT exited abnormally with [1]
May 3 05:56:02 h101606 logrotate: ALERT exited abnormally with [1]
May 4 05:56:02 h101606 logrotate: ALERT exited abnormally with [1]
May 5 05:56:01 h101606 logrotate: ALERT exited abnormally with [1]
May 6 05:56:01 h101606 logrotate: ALERT exited abnormally with [1]
May 7 05:56:01 h101606 logrotate: ALERT exited abnormally with [1]
[email protected] [/var/log]#

[email protected] [/var/log]# 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] [/var/log]#

Problem is these logs all indicate that HTTP logs could not be found and the errors are not actually associated with exim's logrotate configuration.

[email protected] [/etc/logrotate.d]# logrotate -vf /etc/logrotate.conf
reading config file /etc/logrotate.conf
including /etc/logrotate.d
reading config file exim
reading config info for /var/log/exim_mainlog
reading config info for /var/log/exim_paniclog
reading config info for /var/log/exim_rejectlog
reading config file httpd
error: error accessing /var/log/httpd: No such file or directory
error: httpd:1 glob failed for /var/log/httpd/*log
[1]+ Done updatedb
[email protected] [/etc/logrotate.d]#

Here is my /etc/logrotate.conf

[email protected] [/etc/logrotate.d]# 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

# 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, or btmp -- we'll rotate them here
/var/log/wtmp {
monthly
create 0664 root utmp
rotate 1
}
/var/log/btmp {
missingok
monthly
create 0600 root utmp
rotate 1
}
# system-specific logs may be also be configured here.
[email protected] [/etc/logrotate.d]#


Just to be clear everything appears to be working. Except for the rotation and compression of the log files.... which indicates that nothing is actually working.

Any ideas on this?

 

[nathacof]

Well we see the problem then.

When logrotate hits an invalid configuration it halts without continuing

duh

thanks!