Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:43:08 +0200 From: Zbigniew Szalbot <z.szalbot@lcwords.com> To: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: logrotate question Message-ID: <48AC115C.8010300@lcwords.com> In-Reply-To: <48AC0E84.7000106@lcwords.com> References: <48AC0A7D.80207@lcwords.com> <48AC0E84.7000106@lcwords.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Sorry for this monologue... Zbigniew Szalbot: > Answering myself... > > Zbigniew Szalbot: >> Dear all, >> >> I am trying to use logrotate from ports and I am getting the following >> error. Can anyone offer any insight? >> >> /usr/local/sbin/logrotate -d /usr/local/etc/logrotate.conf >> reading config file /usr/local/etc/logrotate.conf >> reading config info for /var/log/httpd-error.log >> error: /usr/local/etc/logrotate.conf:11 bad olddir path "/var/log/tmp/" >> error: found error in /var/log/httpd-error.log , skipping >> error: /usr/local/etc/logrotate.conf:11 } expected >> removing last 1 log configs > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports-bugs/2008-August/147600.html > > So it seems there is a bug and it has not yet been solved? I upgraded (!) logrotate and all is fine. I installed it a few days ago and thought I had the latest version. Shame on me! $ /usr/local/sbin/logrotate -d /usr/local/etc/logrotate.conf reading config file /usr/local/etc/logrotate.conf reading config info for /var/log/httpd-error.log olddir is now tmp/ Handling 1 logs rotating pattern: /var/log/httpd-error.log 71680 bytes (5 rotations) olddir is tmp/, empty log files are rotated, old logs are removed considering log /var/log/httpd-error.log log needs rotating rotating log /var/log/httpd-error.log, log->rotateCount is 5 dateext suffix '-20080820' glob pattern '-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]' glob finding logs to compress failed glob finding old rotated logs failed renaming /var/log/httpd-error.log to /var/log/tmp//httpd-error.log-20080820 creating new /var/log/httpd-error.log mode = 0644 uid = 0 gid = 0 running postrotate script running script with arg /var/log/httpd-error.log : " /sbin/killall -HUP httpd -- Zbigniew Szalbot www.LCWords.com [-- Attachment #2 --] 0 *H 010 + 0 *H 00Mw[BjhV0 *H 0b10 UZA1%0#U Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd.1,0*U#Thawte Personal Freemail Issuing CA0 080710163457Z 090710163457Z0G10UThawte Freemail Member1$0" *H z.szalbot@lcwords.com0"0 *H 0 ޯ,}T["^I[#65 C|&$ò2b|s{HS.cڙbhk\h)z)q_*:UERgۓ <L`O?1.;@@8*Uґb 2:^MG'|Wm:s.ʤyFC{k?'&
