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logrotation doesn't working properly

Dear All,

#cd /var/log
#ls -lh |less

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Code:

-rw-r--r--    1 root    root          10M Feb 28 23:24 postgres.log.20

-rw-r--r--    1 root    root            0 Feb 28 20:16 postgres.log.21

-rw-r--r--    1 root    root          10M Feb 28 20:15 postgres.log.22

-rw-r--r--    1 root    root            0 Feb 28 17:04 postgres.log.23

-rw-r--r--    1 root    root          10M Feb 28 17:03 postgres.log.24

-rw-r--r--    1 root    root            0 Feb 28 13:52 postgres.log.25

-rw-r--r--    1 root    root          10M Feb 28 13:51 postgres.log.26

-rw-r--r--    1 root    root            0 Feb 28 10:56 postgres.log.27

-rw-r--r--    1 root    root          10M Feb 28 10:55 postgres.log.28

-rw-r--r--    1 root    root            0 Feb 28 08:40 postgres.log.29

-rw-r--r--    1 root    root            0 Mar  2 00:12 postgres.log.3

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Why every odd numbered ( postgres.log.3, postgres.log.21 etc. )log file is of size 0. what could be the possible cause

-jack

"logrotation doesn't working properly"

You can set up logrotate to work the way that you want it to. So take a look at your logrotate script.
Logrotate is configured in /etc/logrotate.conf on SuSE. You can find it on your distribution with:
find /etc -iname "*logrotate*"

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Steve Stites