LogRotate Doesn't

[David Timms]

Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 10:49 -0400, David Cary Hart wrote:
>> Here's part of the debugging output with force:
>>
>> log needs rotating
>> rotating log /var/log/messages, log->rotateCount is 7
> 
> So you are not using the default logrotate options in Fedora?
> The default is 4 saved versions.
> Logrotate is run by cron, with the script in /etc/cron.daily and the
> config files are /etc/logrotate.conf and in /etc/logrotate.d.
...
I had an issue in FC5 test 2 or 3 where the logrotate install/upgrade 
did not completely run its post scripts; I forget now, but this left 
logrotate to not work. This was traced back to a faulty user entry for 
either the crond or logrotate install, which meant that the rpm install 
scripts had not completed.

An rpm -V vixie-cron logrotate will verify the rpm installation, just in 
case. My full FC5 install is rotating logs properly.

DaveT.