LinuxQuestions.org - Pix logging on syslog... logrotate does not work

Hello,
I have configured PIX to log into Linux syslog on my RHEL4 m/c. The logging works fine, but when i configured logrotate to rotate the log files on a daily basis , it does not seem to work. Actually there are a couple of more problems associated to this as well. (My intension is to rotate the log file everyday at 12:00 noon)

PROBLEM 1.
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To enable network based logging i run the syslog daemon with the command 'syslogd -r -m 0'. I did the following changes to reflect the same in /etc/init.d/syslog

Code:

...<snip>...

# Source config

if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/syslog ] ; then

        . /etc/sysconfig/syslog

else

        SYSLOGD_OPTIONS="-r -m 0"

        KLOGD_OPTIONS="-2"

fi



RETVAL=0



umask 077



start() {

        echo -n $"Starting system logger: "

        daemon syslogd $SYSLOGD_OPTIONS

        RETVAL=$?

        echo

        echo -n $"Starting kernel logger: "

        daemon klogd $KLOGD_OPTIONS

        echo

        [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/syslog

        return $RETVAL

}

...</snip>...

But this time 'service syslog start' fails!! (though it starts on manually running the command) Strangely, even when it shows failed, the service does start, as 'ps -ef | grep syslog' shows

Code:

root 25023 1 0 10:44 ? 00:00:00 syslogd -m 0

PROBLEM 2.
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Now i read the logrotate manpage and acordingly created the file /etc/logrotate.d/pix_rotate as follows:

Code:

#cat /etc/logrotate.d/pix_rotate

/var/log/pix/SyslogCatchAll.log {

                olddir DatedLogs

        postrotate

                /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true

        endscript

}

Then i put the cron job as follows:
00 12 * * * /usr/sbin/logrotate

Well, this does not seem to work. How do i make it work? (I know i'd be overwriting the rotated log file everyday, but i hope 'extension `date`' in the file /etc/logrotate.d/pix_rotate would help).

Any help on this would be appreciated. i've been struggling with logrotate for quite a while!!!

[edit] I also made the following additions to /etc/logrotate.conf:

Code:

/var/log/pix/SyslogCatchAll.log {

      daily

      create 0664 root root

      rotate 120

}