Bug #644
Message Log not rotating properly
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Description
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
- 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
}
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.
History
#1 Updated by AfterSpencer over 10 years ago
The second batch of code should look 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 }
#2 Updated by rgmhtt over 10 years ago
Can we get logrotate fixed?
My messages is 3Mb and hda-updates.log is 1Mb. I suspect there are users out there where these files have gotten quite large.
#3 Updated by AfterSpencer over 10 years ago
Like I said in the OP the file space on my box was totally full after about six months. The messages log was 250 GB. I would be surprised if others do not have this problem but don't know about it.
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