Logrotate problem

humbletech99 · 01-12-2007, 04:56 AM

I get the following email from Cron on a couple of my gentoo servers:

Code:

To: root
Subject: Cron <root@www2> test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons

sh: line 2: postrotate: command not found
sh: line 2: postrotate: command not found
sh: line 2: postrotate: command not found

I don't know why this happens on these two and not on all the other gentoo servers I have. I can't tell which logrotate script is generating the errors but as far as I know postrotate is valid inside logrotate scripts so I can't see why this erorr is happening.

So how do I stop these errors?

acid_kewpie · 01-13-2007, 03:34 PM

sounds like some sort of syntax error causing a malformed execution of the code... check all your /etc/logrotate.d/ files for occurences of postrotate and post them if you can't see anythign wrong... that error isn't too useful as i guess it could be in any number of files you would already have.

humbletech99 · 01-14-2007, 10:49 AM

Code:

/etc/logrotate.d/apache2:
# $Header$
#
# Apache2 logrotate snipet for Gentoo Linux
# Contributes by Chuck Short
#
/var/log/apache2/*log {
  missingok
  notifempty
  sharedscripts
  postrotate
  /etc/init.d/apache2 reload > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
  endscript
}

/etc/logrotate.d/somecustom:
/var/log/somecustom/somecustom.log {
    daily
    rotate 14
    compress
    create 644 apache apache
    sharedscripts
    prerotate
      /usr/bin/svc -d /service/somecustom
    postrotate
      /usr/bin/svc -u /service/somecustom
    endscript
}


/etc/logrotate.d/somecustom2:
/var/log/somecustom2/somecustom2A.log /var/log/somecustom2/somecustom2B.log {
        daily
        rotate 14
        compress
        create 644 apache apache
        sharedscripts
        prerotate
                /usr/bin/svc -d /service/somecustom2
        postrotate
                /usr/bin/svc -u /service/somecustom2
        endscript
}

/etc/logrotate.d/somecustom3:
/var/log/somecustom3/somecustom3A.log /var/log/somecustom3/somecustom3.log {
        daily
        rotate 14
        compress
        create 644 apache apache
        sharedscripts
        prerotate
                /usr/bin/svc -d /service/somecustom3
        postrotate
                /usr/bin/svc -u /service/somecustom3
        endscript
}

/etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng:
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-admin/syslog-ng/files/syslog-ng.logrotate,v 1.2 2004/07/18 02:25:02 dragonheart Exp $
#
# Syslog-ng logrotate snippet for Gentoo Linux
# contributed by Michael Sterrett
#

/var/log/messages {
    sharedscripts
    postrotate
        /etc/init.d/syslog-ng reload > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
    endscript
}