also sprach Paul Martin <p...@debian.org> [2014-01-11 23:58 +1300]: > What's in /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog and /etc/logrotate.conf?
They are unmodified from the package.
> Running with -d (--debug) doesn't change anything. If you want to
> watch a forced rotation, use -v (--verbose).
Weird, but okay. This reveals:
rotating pattern: /var/log/syslog
forced from command line (7 rotations)
empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /var/log/syslog
log needs rotating
rotating log /var/log/syslog, log->rotateCount is 7
dateext suffix '-20140112'
glob pattern '-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]'
compressing log with: /bin/gzip
error: error creating output file /var/log/syslog.1.gz: File exists
log /var/log/syslog.8.gz doesn't exist -- won't try to dispose of it
(and analogous for all the other logfiles managed by logrotate)
> Have you checked root's mailbox to see if logrotate is crashing
> before reaching rsyslog? (It shouldn't be, as it's updated the
> status file, but you never know.)
There are no mails to root.
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