'logrotate' does not rotate news logfile

andrew.46 · 01-28-2008, 03:54 AM

Hi,

I am logging news (leafnode/fetchnews/texpire) from syslog.conf as follows:

Code:

news.info       -/var/log/news

with no trouble. But I am unable to get logrotate to follow any instructions with this file. In logrotate.conf I have:

Code:

      /var/log/news {
           daily
           rotate 4
           create
           postrotate
                kill -1 `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid`
           endscript
           compress

       }

with absolutely no result. When I test with:

Code:

logrotate -dv /var/log/news

It chokes on the first actual word in the logfile (which is 'January':

Code:

[....]
error: /var/log/news:474 unknown option 'Jan' -- ignoring line
error: /var/log/news:474 unexpected text
error: /var/log/news:475 unknown option 'Jan' -- ignoring line
error: /var/log/news:475 unexpected text
error: /var/log/news:476 unknown option 'Jan' -- ignoring line
error: /var/log/news:476 unexpected text
error: /var/log/news:477 unknown option 'Jan' -- ignoring line
error: /var/log/news:477 unexpected text
error: /var/log/news:478 unknown option 'Jan' -- ignoring line
error: /var/log/news:478 unexpected text

Handling 0 logs

I have obviously missed something very basic and I am keen to know what :-)

Andrew

mRgOBLIN · 01-28-2008, 02:27 PM

try
logrotate -dv /etc/logrotate.conf

it should point to your config file not the log file you are trying to rotate.

andrew.46 · 01-28-2008, 03:43 PM

Hi,

Thanks very much for your reply which has completely resolved the issue:

Quote:

Originally Posted by mRgOBLIN

try
logrotate -dv /etc/logrotate.conf

it should point to your config file not the log file you are trying to rotate.

I am now wearing a hat that says: 'Noob of the month'!

Andrew