[gentoo-user] logrotate

[Kaushal Shriyan]

Hi,

I am using logrotate utility on gentoo to compress catalina.out file. when i
run it using debug mode, I get

#/usr/sbin/logrotate -dv /usr/local/bin/scripts/logrotate-tomcat5-catalina.conf

reading config file /usr/local/bin/scripts/logrotate-tomcat5-catalina.conf
reading config info for /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out
compress_prog is now /bin/gzip

Handling 1 logs

rotating pattern: /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out  after 1 days (7 rotations)

empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out
  log needs rotating
rotating log /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out, log->rotateCount is 7
renaming /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.7.gz to
/var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.8.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 7),

renaming /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.6.gz to
/var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.7.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 6),
renaming /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.5.gz to
/var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.6.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 5),

renaming /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.4.gz to
/var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.5.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 4),
renaming /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.3.gz to
/var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.4.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 3),

renaming /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.2.gz to
/var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.3.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 2),
renaming /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.1.gz to
/var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.2.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 1),

renaming /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.0.gz to
/var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.1.gz (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 0),
copying /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out to /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.1
truncating /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out

error: unable to open /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.1 for compression
#
#cat /usr/local/bin/scripts/logrotate-tomcat5-catalina.conf

/var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out {
        daily

        missingok
        copytruncate
        rotate 7
        compress
        compresscmd /bin/gzip
        notifempty
}
#df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2             112G   27G   85G  24% /

udev                  7.9G  156K  7.9G   1% /dev
shm                   7.9G     0  7.9G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1             479M   44M  411M  10% /boot
# ls -l /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out*
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat 325519875 Sep 26 00:24 /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out
#

Any ideas as what is going wrong

Thanks and Regards

Kaushal