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. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >