Robert Moskowitz wrote:

I have a problem in that at first all my log files were dated 12-31-1969 and logrotate has:

# more /var/lib/logrotate.status logrotate state -- version 2 "/var/log/yum.log" 1969-12-31-20:26:1 "/var/named/data/named.run" 1969-12-31-20:26:1 "/var/log/httpd/error_log" 2015-8-27-4:43:1 "/var/log/wtmp" 1969-12-31-20:26:1 "/var/log/chrony/*.log" 2015-8-19-22:0:0 "/var/log/spooler" 1969-12-31-20:26:1 "/var/log/btmp" 1969-12-31-20:26:1 "/var/log/maillog" 1969-12-31-20:26:1 "/var/log/wpa_supplicant.log" 2015-8-19-22:0:0 "/var/log/secure" 1969-12-31-20:26:1 "/var/log/ppp/connect-errors" 2015-8-19-22:0:0 "/var/log/messages" 1969-12-31-20:26:1 "/var/log/cron" 1969-12-31-20:26:1 "/var/log/httpd/access_log" 2015-8-27-4:43:1

How do I get this file rebuilt with the dates currently on the files listed?

Whenever I've had a problem with logrotate.status files, I just delete them and let logrotate regenerate it the next time it runs

James Pearson