Bug 508650 – www-servers/nginx - nginx.logrotate: gzip: stdin: file size changed while zipping

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Torbjörn Lönnemark 2014-04-24 23:43:26 UTC]

Created attachment 375644 [details]
Updated nginx.logrotate

The cron job running logrotate occasionally generates the following output:

gzip: stdin: file size changed while zipping
error: error running shared postrotate script for '/var/log/nginx/*_log '

This seems to happen because it takes some time for nginx to re-open its log files.

The issue would likely be solved by adding the `delaycompress` directive to the logrotate file.

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2014-04-25 14:04:16 UTC]

Comment on attachment 375644 [details]
Updated nginx.logrotate

--- files/nginx.logrotate       2013-05-04 18:48:42.863776796 +0200
+++ -   2014-04-25 16:04:03.905605808 +0200
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 /var/log/nginx/*_log {
        missingok
+       delaycompress
        sharedscripts
        postrotate
                test -r /run/nginx.pid && kill -USR1 `cat /run/nginx.pid`

[Comment 2 Tiziano Müller (RETIRED) 2014-06-19 09:52:45 UTC]

Done in bump to 1.7.2, thanks to jbergstroem.