LogRotate Doesn't

David Cary Hart Fedora at TQMcube.com
Wed Jun 14 14:49:47 UTC 2006


Here's part of the debugging output with force:

log needs rotating
rotating log /var/log/messages, log->rotateCount is 7
renaming /var/log/messages.7 to /var/log/messages.8 (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 7),
renaming /var/log/messages.6 to /var/log/messages.7 (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 6),
renaming /var/log/messages.5 to /var/log/messages.6 (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 5),
renaming /var/log/messages.4 to /var/log/messages.5 (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 4),
renaming /var/log/messages.3 to /var/log/messages.4 (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 3),
renaming /var/log/messages.2 to /var/log/messages.3 (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 2),
renaming /var/log/messages.1 to /var/log/messages.2 (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 1),
renaming /var/log/messages.0 to /var/log/messages.1 (rotatecount 7, logstart 1, i 0),
renaming /var/log/messages to /var/log/messages.1
creating new log mode = 0600 uid = 0 gid = 0
removing old log /var/log/messages.8

None of the above actually took place. All I have
is /var/log/messages.

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