[CentOS] Logrotate errors

[Steven Tardy]

http://svn.fedorahosted.org/svn/logrotate/tags/r3-8-5/logrotate.8
shows "hourly" as a .conf option was added to 3.8.5...

current centos 6 version is logrotate-3.7.8-17.el6.x86_64

centos6$ man logrotate:
       dateformat format_string
              Specify  the extension for dateext using the notation similar
to
              strftime(3) function. Only  %Y  %m  %d  and  %s  specifiers
are
              allowed.

in your .conf try:
dateformat -%s



On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 2:45 AM, C. L. Martinez <carlopmart at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>  I have a problem with logrotate and I don't know why. In
> /var/log/messages appears these errors:
>
> Apr  8 15:01:01 plzfnsm02 logrotate: ALERT exited abnormally with [1]
> Apr  8 16:01:01 plzfnsm02 logrotate: ALERT exited abnormally with [1]
> Apr  8 17:01:01 plzfnsm02 logrotate: ALERT exited abnormally with [1]
> Apr  8 18:01:01 plzfnsm02 logrotate: ALERT exited abnormally with [1]
> Apr  8 19:01:01 plzfnsm02 logrotate: ALERT exited abnormally with [1]
> Apr  8 20:01:02 plzfnsm02 logrotate: ALERT exited abnormally with [1]
> Apr  8 21:01:01 plzfnsm02 logrotate: ALERT exited abnormally with [1]
> Apr  8 22:01:01 plzfnsm02 logrotate: ALERT exited abnormally with [1]
> Apr  8 23:01:01 plzfnsm02 logrotate: ALERT exited abnormally with [1]
>
> It seems the problem if with this logrotate.conf (executed every hour):
>
> create
> dateext
>
> /srv/www2/logs/viewer.log {
>    size 512k
>    create 0640 www www
>    missingok
>    rotate 7
>    compress
>    delaycompress
>    copytruncate
>    notifempty
> }
>
> Doing a debug:
>
> [root at www02 ~]# logrotate /data/config/etc/logrotate.conf -dv
> reading config file /data/config/etc/logrotate.conf
> reading config info for /nsm/moloch/logs/viewer.log
>
> Handling 1 logs
>
> rotating pattern: /srv/www2/logs/viewer.log  524288 bytes (7 rotations)
> empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
> considering log /srv/www2/logs/viewer.log
>   log needs rotating
> rotating log /srv/www2/logs/viewer.log, log->rotateCount is 7
> dateext suffix '-20140409'
> glob pattern '-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]'
> glob finding logs to compress failed
> destination /srv/www2/logs/viewer.log-20140409 already exists, skipping
> rotation
>
>  According to this kb from redhat's website:
>
> https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/39006
>
>  problem could be selinux. But SElinux is disabled:
>
> [root at www02 ~]# sestatus
> SELinux status:                 disabled
> [root at www02 ~]#
>
>  Any idea?? Could be a bug??
>
>  Host is a CentOS 6.5 x86_64 fully patched.
>
> Thanks.
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