> No, it didn't, just worked silently. Could you please instruct me on how to
> emulate correct logrotate run with lots of debugging information? I guess I
> will have to edit /var/lib/logrotate/status, so that logrotate believes it
> hasn't done it's job for long (what if I change the year from 2018 to 2017 in
> all the lines?), then fabricate some big log files kern.log, daemon.log, ...
> (will random data from urandom suffice, or should it be plain text?), and
> then, maybe, logrotate -d as root manually?
The follwing script should do it (even as non-root):
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#!/bin/sh
set -eu
TEST_PATH=/tmp/logrotate
TEST_LOG="$TEST_PATH/test.log"
TEST_STATE="$TEST_PATH/state"
TEST_CONF="$TEST_PATH/test.conf"
mkdir -p "$TEST_PATH"
dd if=/dev/random of="$TEST_LOG" bs=1M count=10
cat <<EOF > "$TEST_STATE"
logrotate state -- version 2
"$TEST_LOG" 2018-1-1-0:0:0
EOF
cat <<EOF > "$TEST_CONF"
$TEST_LOG {
rotate 4
weekly
missingok
notifempty
compress
delaycompress
create
}
EOF
/usr/sbin/logrotate --verbose --state="$TEST_STATE" "$TEST_CONF"
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The output for me is:
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$ ./logrotate.sh
dd: warning: partial read (88 bytes); suggest iflag=fullblock
0+10 records in
0+10 records out
798 bytes copied, 0,000645187 s, 1,2 MB/s
reading config file /tmp/logrotate/test.conf
Reading state from file: /tmp/logrotate/state
Allocating hash table for state file, size 64 entries
Creating new state
Handling 1 logs
rotating pattern: /tmp/logrotate/test.log weekly (4 rotations)
empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /tmp/logrotate/test.log
Now: 2018-08-25 13:13
Last rotated at 2018-01-01 00:00
log needs rotating
rotating log /tmp/logrotate/test.log, log->rotateCount is 4
dateext suffix '-20180825'
glob pattern '-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]'
previous log /tmp/logrotate/test.log.1 does not exist
renaming /tmp/logrotate/test.log.4.gz to /tmp/logrotate/test.log.5.gz
(rotatecount 4, logstart 1, i 4),
old log /tmp/logrotate/test.log.4.gz does not exist
renaming /tmp/logrotate/test.log.3.gz to /tmp/logrotate/test.log.4.gz
(rotatecount 4, logstart 1, i 3),
old log /tmp/logrotate/test.log.3.gz does not exist
renaming /tmp/logrotate/test.log.2.gz to /tmp/logrotate/test.log.3.gz
(rotatecount 4, logstart 1, i 2),
old log /tmp/logrotate/test.log.2.gz does not exist
renaming /tmp/logrotate/test.log.1.gz to /tmp/logrotate/test.log.2.gz
(rotatecount 4, logstart 1, i 1),
old log /tmp/logrotate/test.log.1.gz does not exist
renaming /tmp/logrotate/test.log.0.gz to /tmp/logrotate/test.log.1.gz
(rotatecount 4, logstart 1, i 0),
old log /tmp/logrotate/test.log.0.gz does not exist
log /tmp/logrotate/test.log.5.gz doesn't exist -- won't try to dispose of it
renaming /tmp/logrotate/test.log to /tmp/logrotate/test.log.1
creating new /tmp/logrotate/test.log mode = 0644 uid = 1000 gid = 1000
$ ls -la logrotate/
total 36K
drwxr-xr-x 2 christian christian 4,0K Aug 25 13:13 .
drwxrwxrwt. 20 root root 20K Aug 25 13:13 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 christian christian 74 Aug 25 13:13 state
-rw-r--r-- 1 christian christian 151 Aug 25 13:13 test.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 christian christian 0 Aug 25 13:13 test.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 christian christian 798 Aug 25 13:13 test.log.1
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