[CentOS] Logrotate problems

Thu Sep 24 13:33:18 UTC 2015
Andrew Holway <andrew.holway at gmail.com>

Hmm, so it seems that logrotate might be broken for nginx on Centos7. I
filed a bug with epel.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1266105

On 24 September 2015 at 11:49, Andrew Holway <andrew.holway at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Actually, doing what logrotate suggests causes other problems. We don't
> have this problem on any other system so I am keen to understand the root
> of the issue rather than start messing around with the default permissions
> of the log directories.
>
> logrotate only matches /var/log/nginx/*log -  /var/log/nginx/access.log &
> /var/log/nginx/error.log
>
> On the server where we have problems we have
> /var/log/nginx/subdirectory/some.other.log
>
>
>
> On 24 September 2015 at 09:34, Jo Rhett <jrhett at netconsonance.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sep 24, 2015, at 12:18 AM, Andrew Holway <andrew.holway at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > error: skipping "/var/log/nginx/access.log" because parent directory has
>> > insecure permissions (It's world writable or writable by group which is
>> not
>> > "root") Set "su" directive in config file to tell logrotate which
>> > user/group should be used for rotation.
>>
>> Right there ^^^ it is telling you what is wrong and how to fix it.
>>
>> --
>> Jo Rhett
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>> projects.
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