logrotate Problem

[Andrew Bacchi]

Vivek Mangal wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I have a Problem to create the log file.
Which log file?  Is it not created?  Or, not rotated?
You're not providing enough info for us to help you.

> Log file did not  compress and  they did not rotate weekly.
> i donot know what is the problem.
Which version of RH?
Did you read the man page for logrotate?
It says logrotate is controled be a cron job.
Did you look in /etc/cron.weekly? /etc/cron.daily?
What sets off logrotate?
Do you see 0anacron in those directories?
Is the cron damon running?

> and i configured logrotate.conf as
> all the entries in /etc/logrotate.d/* are correct.
> their are any other file which are responsible for it ?
> and how can i solve it ?
> \\\\\\\\ /etc/logrotate.conf file\\\\\\\\\\
> # see "man logrotate" for details
> # rotate log files weekly
> weekly
> # keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs
> rotate 4
> # create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
> create
> # uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
> compress
> # RPM packages drop log rotation information into this directory
> include /etc/logrotate.d
> # no packages own wtmp -- we'll rotate them here
> /var/log/wtmp {
>     monthly
>     create 0664 root utmp
>     rotate 1
> }
> \\\\\\\\\\ End of Log file \\\\\\\\\\

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