[Gllug] logrotate

SteveC steve at asklater.com
Wed Feb 1 15:42:25 UTC 2006


* @ 30/01/06 08:58:23 AM mozrat at gmail.com wrote:
> On 29/01/06, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
> > Hello all
> >
> > I have a problem with either cron or logrotate on a debian stable box.
> > Since booted about two months ago it's never rotated any logs. Cron is
> > installed and running. /etc/cron.daily/logrotate -v /etc/logrotate.conf
> > just says none of the logs need rotating. All the packages are up to
> > date and I havn't messed with /etc/ at all other than apache's config.
> > syslog and apache2/access.log etc are starting to get big.
> 
> I had a similar issue once where I set ntpdate up on a box but didn't
> set it to run at boot time.
> 
> Do your log files have a timestamp set in the future?

No, they were ok.

Rebooting (for another reason) magically fixed it. Don't know why.

Yours confused,

have fun,

SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/
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