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I was having an issue with the message log on my Amahi server not rotating properly. It was up to over the past few months and under previous install had filled up available space on root which resulted in me re-installing Amahi/Fedora.

After some digging and manually running they logrotate command ( logrotate -vf /etc/logrotate.conf ) and watching the output I determined that it was failing when it tried to run the postscript found in /etc/logrotate.d/syslog

Originally the file looked like this:

Code:
/var/log/messages /var/log/secure /var/log/maillog /var/log/spooler /var/log/boot.log /var/log/cron {
sharedscripts
prerotate
/usr/bin/greyhole --prerotate
endscript
postrotate
/usr/bin/greyhole --postrotate > /dev/null || true
/bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
endscript
}

I commented it out like this:

Code:
/var/log/messages /var/log/secure /var/log/maillog /var/log/spooler /var/log/boot.log /var/log/cron {
sharedscripts

1. prerotate
2. /usr/bin/greyhole --prerotate
3. endscript
   postrotate
4. /usr/bin/greyhole --postrotate > /dev/null || true
   /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
   endscript
   }

and it fixed the problem and rotated the message log properly.

I also disabled greyhole as found here (http://forums.amahi.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=1742&start=0) as I do not use it.