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Logrotate causes rsyslogd to stop working after log rotation. Please help!

hello all

I noticed that each time logrotate runs on my RHEL 5.9 Linux server, it causes rsyslogd to stop working and I have to manually restart it. I am trying to configure logrotate that it restarts rsyslog after its completed rotating the logs. I placed the following in my logrotate.conf for one of the logs for testing purposes. Please let me know if this looks correct:

Code:

/var/logs/example/example.log {

    daily

    rotate 365

    create 0644 root root

    postrotate

        reload rsyslog >/dev/null 2>&1 || true

    endscript

}

Does this look good and how should I go about testing if this is working?

Thanks for all of your help!!

Not sure if reload rsyslog >/dev/null 2>&1 || true is the correct entry, try the following:

Code:

/var/log/firewall {

    daily

    compress

    rotate 365

    create 0644 root root

    postrotate

        /etc/init.d/rsyslog reload

    endscript

}

I also added an extra option (green one), which might be handy (compressing the rotated files).

Testing can be done as follows:

- logrotate -d /etc/logrotate.conf to check (no changes are made, just for debugging),
- logrotate -fv /etc/logrotate.conf force logrotate to do its job,
- Have a look at the log file: /var/lib/logrotate/status (location might be different).

Also have a look here: Manage Linux log files with Logrotate