Cron daily error: logrotate

Hey guys, while I'm at a basic-medium level of programming knowledge my unix knowledge is extremely limited. I ran 'Mint' for about 8 months 6-7 years ago. So my memory is somewhat lacking. However when I did I enjoyed bash scripting far more than I ever enjoyed java (urgh).

So I recently purchased a VPS from Hostgator as I'm out of work and looking to start my new career online. I chose linux naturally because they make far superior servers than windows installations (bias opinion).

However right from the get go I'm getting these error messages sent to my inbox from my server. I'm running Windows7 however I have cygwin (full), putty and filezilla installed.

Please be kind, I have no idea what cron-daily is about. If anyone could shed some light on it that would be great. Thanks, G.

/etc/cron.daily/60sa-update:

Shutting down psa-spamassassin service:  [  OK  ]
Starting psa-spamassassin service:  [  OK  ]
/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:

error: temp:1 lines must begin with a keyword or a filename (possibly in double quotes)
error: temp:2 lines must begin with a keyword or a filename (possibly in double quotes)
error: temp:3 lines must begin with a keyword or a filename (possibly in double quotes)
error: temp:4 lines must begin with a keyword or a filename (possibly in double quotes)
error: temp:5 lines must begin with a keyword or a filename (possibly in double quotes)
error: temp:6 lines must begin with a keyword or a filename (possibly in double quotes)
error: temp:7 lines must begin with a keyword or a filename (possibly in double quotes)
error: temp:8 lines must begin with a keyword or a filename (possibly in double quotes)
error: temp:9 lines must begin with a keyword or a filename (possibly in double quotes)

Often when you have a message it is good to simply do a web search for it as there is a good chance others have had it. I found several hits for it including this one:

http://forum.parallels.com/showthrea...581#post634581

A poster there says:

I discovered a file titled "temp" that contained a standard 404 error html page in the directory /etc/logrotate.d This file has 9 lines of html, exactly the number of errors I am seeing, and html doesn't fit the config parameters for logrotate, so the errors make sense. I removed the file. I expect to see the errors no longer. I'd suggest looking in that directory and checking all of the files. The list of files now in my directory are: exim httpd iscsiuiolog mailman named nginx rpm samba sa-update snmpd syslog temp yum

Other posters indicate that was also their problem so it is likely yours as well.

Thanks Mensa

I was to busy using this forums search engine and coming up blank >.<

Also on a side note, another member was talking on security side of Plesk. Anyone know what issues can arise from using plesk over cpanel and what I should look out for, and/or change server config.

Ok so in /etc/cron.daily (see image attatchment)
I can't edit any files or view them except for the 1 text file.
It contains 10 lines. I assume "done" parses correctly?

flags=-umc
/usr/sbin/tmpwatch "$flags" -x /tmp/.X11-unix -x /tmp/.XIM-unix \
	-x /tmp/.font-unix -x /tmp/.ICE-unix -x /tmp/.Test-unix \
	-X '/tmp/hsperfdata_*' 240 /tmp
/usr/sbin/tmpwatch "$flags" 720 /var/tmp
for d in /var/{cache/man,catman}/{cat?,X11R6/cat?,local/cat?}; do
    if [ -d "$d" ]; then
	/usr/sbin/tmpwatch "$flags" -f 720 "$d"
    fi
done

Would that be the culprit?

#!/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

I was able to copy logrotate to my home folder and download it's contents.
However both directories don't contain the above mentioned files and usr/bin/logger doesn't exist either.
My bad, I didn't realize plesk was only showing me 10 results per page.

So ignore that, I should be able to find it.