Logs not rotating

Arty Ziff · 12-31-2010, 10:09 PM

The log files in /var/log/httpd are not rotating. What should I check? Is there a was to run the rotation manually?

Here's what's in /etc/logrotate.conf

Code:

# see "man logrotate" for details
# rotate log files weekly
weekly

# keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs
rotate 4

# create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
create

# uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
#compress

# RPM packages drop log rotation information into this directory
include /etc/logrotate.d

# no packages own wtmp -- we'll rotate them here
/var/log/wtmp {
    monthly
    minsize 1M
    create 0664 root utmp
    rotate 1
}

# system-specific logs may be also be configured here.

andrewthomas · 01-01-2011, 12:25 AM

Quote:

# RPM packages drop log rotation information into this directory
include /etc/logrotate.d

You need to post the contents of the /etc/logrotate.d directory.

acid_kewpie · 01-01-2011, 01:55 AM

You certainly can run the rotate manually, using the -f option to logrotate if I remember right. Check the compare for full details, but if it's just the httpd logs then as above I would be looking at the httpd config in logrotate.d, if it even exists.

Arty Ziff · 01-01-2011, 03:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by andrewthomas

You need to post the contents of the /etc/logrotate.d directory.

This:

Quote:

acpid conman cups httpd mgetty named ppp proftpd psacct quagga rpm samba setroubleshoot squid syslog tux vsftpd.log wpa_supplicant yum

And the file httpd:

Code:

/var/log/httpd/*log {
    missingok
    notifempty
    sharedscripts
    postrotate
        /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/httpd.pid 2>/dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
    endscript
}

acid_kewpie · 01-01-2011, 04:31 PM

So run logrotate manually, and see what the verbose output says about the config files as they are written. Are other files bring successfully rotated?

novice06 · 01-04-2011, 01:51 AM

logrotate use cron to rotate. If you don't install cron packages, log will not rotated.
/etc/cron.daily/logrotate

Make sure below packages are installed
crontabs.noarch
vixie-cron.i386