Hi All, I do not understand why the log files within /var/log/portage/ will not rotate on my PC, while they rotate fine on my laptop. The /etc/logrotate.conf is the same on both boxen: ========================================== # rotate log files weekly weekly #daily
# 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 # packages can drop log rotation information into this directory include /etc/logrotate.d notifempty nomail noolddir [snip . . . ] # when /var/log/portage gets big /var/log/portage/*.log { rotate 1 weekly nocreate ifempty olddir /var/log/portage/old postrotate find /var/log/portage/old -maxdepth 1 -mtime +30 -exec /bin/rm -f {} \; endscript nocompress } ========================================== The only difference I noticed (other than the fact that I have two year old portage log files in /var/log/portage) between the two boxen is that the access rights of the 'old' directory on the PC were: drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 48 Dec 23 2005 old while on the laptop which rotates without problems are: drwx------ 2 root root 4256 Jan 13 11:20 old This may be a bit of a red herring because even though I changed the access rights as per the laptop, the PC still refuses to rotate the portage log files. Any ideas? How do I troubleshoot this one? -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list