Package: logrotate Version: 3.8.7-1+b1 Followup-For: Bug #734688 Dear Maintainer,
Seconded, the problem still persists in jessie. Logrotate was practically broken after /var/log got full a month ago. There where various .log.1.gz files, most of which where 0 bytes which stopped logrotate to act on those files completely. # grep 'error creating output file' logrotate_force_20151216.log error: error creating output file /var/log/dpkg.log.1.gz: File exists error: error creating output file /var/log/alternatives.log.1.gz: File exists error: error creating output file /var/log/nginx/error.log.1.gz: File exists error: error creating output file /var/log/nginx/access.log.1.gz: File exists error: error creating output file /var/log/php5-fpm.log.1.gz: File exists error: error creating output file /var/log/syslog.1.gz: File exists error: error creating output file /var/log/daemon.log.1.gz: File exists error: error creating output file /var/log/auth.log.1.gz: File exists error: error creating output file /var/log/messages.1.gz: File exists # ls -lah daemon.log* -rw-r----- 1 root adm 3.1G Dec 16 19:07 daemon.log -rw-r----- 1 root adm 600K Sep 28 06:17 daemon.log.1 -rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 Oct 4 06:25 daemon.log.1.gz -rw-r----- 1 root adm 43K Sep 20 06:03 daemon.log.2.gz -rw-r----- 1 root adm 111K Sep 13 05:55 daemon.log.3.gz -rw-r----- 1 root adm 480 Sep 6 22:45 daemon.log.4.gz # log from logrotate -f -v for daemon.log rotating log /var/log/daemon.log, log->rotateCount is 4 dateext suffix '-20151216' 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/daemon.log.1.gz: File exists log /var/log/daemon.log.5.gz doesn't exist -- won't try to dispose of it michael -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) -- no debconf information
