[Cialug] Logrotate Issues with RHEL 6 on Manual entries

[Kelly Slaugh]

Thank you Charles that is what I was doing wrong....


Kelly L. Slaugh 

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   1. Re: CIALUG Meeting Next Wednesday, please RSVP (Kurt Parker)
   2. Re: Logrotate Issues with RHEL 6 on Manual entries
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Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 09:40:41 -0600
From: Kurt Parker <kurtparker23 at gmail.com>
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
Subject: Re: [Cialug] CIALUG Meeting Next Wednesday, please RSVP
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Hey, I?m a noob and will be attending. Just moved to the area and work with Theron. I look forward to meeting everyone. 


Kurt Parker | Milestone Data Center Lead
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e-mail: kurtparker23 at gmail.com | Mobile: 515-371-1421





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Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 10:19:06 -0600
From: Charles Dunbar <ccdunbar at gmail.com>
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Logrotate Issues with RHEL 6 on Manual entries
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With regards to the -d output, you point `logroate -d` to the config file, not the file you want to rotate.

Charles

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Kelly Slaugh <kelly at visionary.com> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone I was wondering if someone has an idea why my Logrotate 
> is not working on a manual entry in the /etc/logrotate.d/httpd config file?
>
> Weekly the logrotate is failing to cycle and compress my logs in the 
> directory given.  This same logrotate command is running successfully 
> on
> RHEL5 but not on RHEL6.  I checked to see if SELinux was causing a 
> problem and that's not it.
>
> When I run the command # logrotate -d file I get the error message "error:
> file access_log too large, probably not a config file.  removing last 
> 0 log configs"  However the log is not too large, it's only 12M.
>
> My Config file states this...  The logs that I need rotated in the 
> first entry are owned by Apache and need to have apache restarted to 
> create new ones.  Should I and the postrotate command just as Apache has for its logs?
>
> //{dir}/[directory]/logs/*log {
>     missingok
>     notifempty
>     sharedscripts
>     postrotate
>     endscript
> }
>
>
> /var/log/httpd/*log {
>     missingok
>     notifempty
>     sharedscripts
>     delaycompress
>     postrotate
>         /sbin/service httpd reload > /dev/null 2>/dev/null || true
>     endscript
> }
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you
>
> Kelly L. Slaugh // Systems Administrator Visionary Services, Inc.
>
> P1: 515.369.3545 ext. 116
> visionary.com
>
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