[SOLVED] Logs not rotating

anon091 · 08-17-2012, 03:07 AM

Hi guys. I looked in /var/log on one of my older servers, and noticed the logs weren't rotating. so i went to /etc/cron.daily and tried to run a ./logrotate since i saw /etc/cron.daily/logrotate was setup as a cron job.
When i ran the ./logrotate, i got the following errors and it doesn't appear that any of the logs created new files. Any ideas how I can fix this?

error: bad year 1992 for file /var/log/cups/access_log in state file /var/lib/logrotate.status
error: could not read state file, will not attempt to write into it

anon091 · 08-17-2012, 03:10 AM

Here's the /var/lig/logrotate.status file

logrotate state -- version 2
"/var/log/acpid" 2006-12-29
"/var/log/cups/access_log" 1992-8-23
"/var/log/cups/error_log" 1992-8-23
"/var/log/httpd/*log" 2006-12-29
"/var/log/mgetty.log.tty[^.]" 2006-12-29
"/var/log/mgetty.log.tty[^.][^.]" 2006-12-29
"/var/log/mgetty.log.tty[^.][^.][^.]" 2006-12-29
"/var/log/mgetty.log.tty[^.][^.][^.][^.]" 2006-12-29
"/var/log/mgetty.log.tty[^.][^.][^.][^.][^.]" 2006-12-29
"/var/log/mgetty.log.tty[^.][^.][^.][^.][^.][^.]" 2006-12-29
"/var/log/mgetty.log.tty[^.][^.][^.][^.][^.][^.][^.]" 2006-12-29
"/var/log/mgetty.log.tty[^.][^.][^.][^.][^.][^.][^.][^.]" 2006-12-29
"/var/log/mgetty.log.tty[^.][^.][^.][^.][^.][^.][^.][^.][^.]" 2006-12-29
"/var/log/mgetty.log.tty[^.][^.][^.][^.][^.][^.][^.][^.][^.][^.]" 2006-12-29
"/var/log/mgetty.log.unknown" 2006-12-29
"/var/log/mgetty.callback" 2006-12-29
"/var/log/ppp/connect-errors" 2006-12-29
"/var/account/pacct" 2006-12-29
"/var/log/rpmpkgs" 1992-8-23
"/var/log/samba/*.log" 2006-12-29
"/var/log/squid/access.log" 2006-12-29
"/var/log/squid/cache.log" 2006-12-29
"/var/log/squid/store.log" 2006-12-29
"/var/log/messages" 1992-8-23
"/var/log/secure" 1992-8-23
"/var/log/maillog" 1992-8-23
"/var/log/spooler" 1992-8-23
"/var/log/boot.log" 1992-8-23
"/var/log/cron" 1992-8-23
"/var/log/tux" 2006-12-29
"/var/log/up2date" 1992-8-23
"/var/log/xferlog" 1992-8-23
"/var/log/wtmp" 1992-8-23
"/var/log/samba/nmbd.log" 1992-8-23
"/var/log/samba/smbd.log" 1992-8-23
"/var/log/sa-update.log" 2007-3-10
"/var/log/httpd/access_log" 1992-8-23
"/var/log/httpd/error_log" 1992-8-23
"/var/log/httpd/ssl_access_log" 2012-2-25
"/var/log/httpd/ssl_error_log" 1992-8-23
"/var/log/httpd/ssl_request_log" 2012-2-25
"/var/log/vsftpd.log" 2009-10-2

unSpawn · 08-17-2012, 05:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rjo98

error: could not read state file, will not attempt to write into it

Code:

mv -f /var/lib/logrotate.status /var/lib/logrotate.status.$$; touch /var/lib/logrotate.status; 
chown 0:0 /var/lib/logrotate.status; chmod 0644 /var/lib/logrotate.status; 
# test:
/usr/sbin/logrotate -d /etc/logrotate.conf
# and force run:
/usr/sbin/logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.conf

anon091 · 08-17-2012, 05:26 AM

That did it! thanks unSpawn. but what does that $$ do exactly? looks like it put numbers in for that, but not sure why.

unSpawn · 08-17-2012, 06:16 AM

The PID of your current shell session.

anon091 · 08-17-2012, 06:16 AM

oh ok, thanks for all the help.