On Mon, 6 Oct 2014 19:51:38 +0100 Michael Grant <mgr...@grant.org> wrote:
> When logrotate fired this month, almost all of my logs remain at zero > length and the .1 log continues to grow. For example: > > ls -l /var/log > ... > -rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 Oct 5 06:25 messages > -rw-r----- 1 root adm 4938 Oct 6 06:56 messages.1 > ... > -rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 Oct 1 06:25 syslog > -rw-r----- 1 root adm 15767734 Oct 6 13:17 syslog.1 > > I'm running debian wheezy 7.6 on two separate systems. > > I'm guessing that logrotate didn't complete to restart the daemons. > When I run logrotate -dv, I see no errors. > > I update both with cron-apt and I would not be surprised if one of the > updates caused this but I'm not sure. > > Has anyone else seen this? Any idea how to fix it so this works next > month? Mine rotate every day, and seem to be doing so quite happily, but they are on a server and it's run by the default cron system. Have you tried running logrotate manually without -d? It's possible an update has caused a permissions issue somewhere, and you may get clues from the console. -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141006200646.394fc...@jresid.jretrading.com
