I have the following Linux cluster.

/app/s04/log/rcv.log
/app/s04/log/snd.log
/app/s04/log/info.log

Today, active linux node(RHEL4) failover to another node. Then I got my app resource mounted at another node so that there is nothing under /app/s04 now.

I found daily cron job excecuted at AM4:02 are failed with [logrotate: exited with return code 1]. My app log logroate setting is /etc/logrotate.d/applog as follows.

/app/s04/log/*.log {
missingok
weekly
notifempty
create 644 root root
}

I tried to test the setting again as follows.

# logrotate -dv /etc/logrotate.d/applog

reading config file applog
error: error accessing /app/s04/log/*.log: No such or directory
error: applog:1 glob failed for /app/s04/log/*.log

I think that is because of /app/s04/log directory loss by failover.

Question: Is there a way to edit /etc/logroate.d/applog to logrotate properly? I tried to [missingok], but it seems that it just can look up
log file not directory, here i want to ask if there is way to let logrotate to ignore the nonexistent direcory such as /app/s04/log.

I would solve this problem by creating a dummy /app/s04/log/ directory on your rollover node.

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Steve Stites

I would solve this problem by creating a dummy /app/s04/log/ directory on your rollover node.
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Yes, I have tried to create /app/s04/log directory and it works fine.
But I worried when I failback /app/s04 to the node, the dummy /app/s04/log
directory will conflict with log directory under /app/s04 cluster resource.

Any idea?