A google search turned up this as the most likely candidate for my
logrotate+gzip issues.
I'm going to try this for a workaround:
/var/log/upstart/*.log {
daily
missingok
rotate 7
compress
notifempty
nocreate
# Added by wjd 2017-03 for launchpad bug #1350782
delaycompress
sharedscripts
postrotate
lsof | awk '/ \/var\/log\/upstart\/.*\.log.+/{print $9}' | sed
-e 's#.*/##;s#\..*##' | xargs -IX service X restart >/dev/null
endscript
}
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1350782
Title:
Upstart does not reopen /var/log/upstart/* logfiles upon log rotation
Status in upstart package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Note: this issue is reported from a 12.04 system, but I've confirmed
the same behavior on a 14.04 system.
Logrotate configuration for Upstart logs has no postrotate action:
/var/log/upstart/*.log {
daily
missingok
rotate 7
compress
notifempty
nocreate
}
As a result, when logs are rotated, upstart keeps open handles on
deleted log files instead of reopening the new log files:
# lsof -p1 | fgrep /var/log/upstart
. . .
init 1 root 8w REG 253,1 62 789436
/var/log/upstart/dbus.log.1 (deleted)
. . .
From this point on, all subsequent log messages are lost, delivered
into a deleted file.
I could not find a way to get the upstart init process to reopen its
log files, short of restarting _all_ services that log to
/var/log/upstart/*.log files, which does not seem like a good solution
at all.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: upstart 1.5-0ubuntu7.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-60.91-generic 3.2.55
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-60-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jul 31 10:43:25 2014
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.04.4 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64
(20120214.2)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: upstart
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2013-10-23 (280 days ago)
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