log files not being rotated

sang_froid · 12-10-2009, 03:34 PM

I have syslog daemon running and also /etc/logrotate.conf says as below:

Quote:

# 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
}

Also
ps -ef |grep log

Quote:

root 21839 1 0 15:26 ? 00:00:00 syslogd -m 0
root 21843 1 0 15:26 ? 00:00:00 klogd -x
root 21895 15498 0 15:33 pts/0 00:00:00 grep log

Still the system is not rotating log files...what could have gone wrong ?

acid_kewpie · 12-10-2009, 03:40 PM

no idea, that's just the bog standard master config file out of the box so we've nothing to go on at all. check your logs in /var/log/messages and try "logrotate -vf /etc/logrotate.conf" to show verbose forced rotation of the process.

kenneho · 12-11-2009, 09:11 AM

Is your cron daemon running? The cron daemon runs logrotate on a daily basis (/etc/cron.daily/logrotate), so make sure your cron daemon is running. If yes, then try acid_kewpie's suggestion.