[CentOS] logrotate script not working

Christopher Jacoby cjacoby75 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 8 03:12:29 UTC 2015


Check for selinux denials for logrotate.

Chris
On Jan 7, 2015 8:09 PM, "Mateusz Guz" <Mateusz.Guz at itworks.pl> wrote:

> Have u tried removing the 'weekly' directive?
> You might consider replacing size with maxsize (details below)
>
> maxsize size
> Log files are rotated when they grow bigger than size bytes even before
> the additionally specified time interval (daily, weekly, monthly, or
> yearly). The related size option is similar except that it is mutually
> exclusive with the time interval options, and it causes log files to be
> rotated without regard for the last rotation time. When maxsize is used,
> both the size and timestamp of a log file are considered.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
> Behalf Of Tim Dunphy
> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 3:55 AM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: [CentOS] logrotate script not working
>
> Hey guys,
>
>  Got a quick question and I hope this is an easy one!
>
>  In my /etc/logrotate.conf file I have the following entry:
>
>  # rotate all of the apache logs  -- we'll rotate them here
> /var/log/mysqld.log  {
>     weekly
>     size  50M
>     create 0644 mysql mysql
>     rotate 1
> }
>
> And from that I would expect the log to rotate when it reaches 50M in size.
> However I just caught that log weighing in at 356MB!!  So how can I get
> this log file to rotate when it hits 50MB?
>
> Any ideas, advice and help at all would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Tim
>
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