logrotate failure
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Nov 20 19:45:33 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 08:52 -0700, David G. Miller wrote:
> Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 07:36 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >
> >> > Greetings;
> >> >
> >> > Two weeks now since I installed FC6, and still no logrotation is being
> >> > done.
> >> >
> >> > Stepping into /etc/logrotate.d, and doing an sh ./syslog results in this:
> >> >
> >> > [root at coyote logrotate.d]# sh ./syslog
> >> > ./syslog: line 1: /var/log/messages: Permission denied
> >> > ./syslog: line 2: sharedscripts: command not found
> >> > ./syslog: line 3: postrotate: command not found
> >> > ./syslog: line 5: endscript: command not found
> >> > ./syslog: line 6: syntax error near unexpected token `}'
> >> > ./syslog: line 6: `}'
> >>
> > ----
> > not that I wish to follow in your footsteps but if it's any consolation,
> > that occurs when I do that on my system too. But I am not going to spend
> > any time trying to figure out why.
> It happened because it's supposed to happen. The files in
> /etc/logrotate.d aren't executable. They're configuration files for
> each of the logs that logrotate acts on.
>
> If you want to try running logrotate, your best bet would probably be to
> run the file in /etc/cron.daily:
>
> # cat /etc/cron.daily/logrotate
> #!/bin/sh
>
> /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf
> EXITVALUE=$?
> if [ $EXITVALUE != 0 ]; then
> /usr/bin/logger -t logrotate "ALERT exited abnormally with [$EXITVALUE]"
> fi
> exit 0
>
> but verify the rpms first.
----
I believe that is another way of saying what I said.
Craig
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