It's very strange: When logrotate runs, it rotates some, but not all logs under /var/log. Running it with "--debug" reveals no errors?! Kind regards, Qeldroma Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Run "logrotate -d /etc/logrotate.conf" ================ logrotate.conf =================================== # cat /etc/logrotate.conf # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-admin/logrotate/files/logrotate.conf,v 1.2 2004/07/18 01:58:24 dragonheart Exp $ # # Logrotate default configuration file for Gentoo Linux # # See "man logrotate" for details # rotate log files weekly #weekly daily # keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs rotate 13 # create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones create # uncomment this if you want your log files compressed #compress # packages can drop log rotation information into this directory include /etc/logrotate.d notifempty nomail noolddir # no packages own lastlog or wtmp -- we'll rotate them here /var/log/wtmp { monthly create 0664 root utmp rotate 1 } # system-specific logs may be also be configured here. ================ emerge info =================================== # emerge info Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-hardened-r14 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-hardened-r14 i686 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Jun 28 2005, 16:30:53)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo" LANG="" LC_ALL="de_DE" LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="authdaemond berkdb bzip2 crypt gpm hardened mailwrapper mysql ncurses nls pam pam-mysql pcre perl python readline sasl skey ssl ucs2 unicode userlocales x86 linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
So add entries for things you need to rotate to /etc/logrotate.d
(In reply to comment #1) > So add entries for things you need to rotate to /etc/logrotate.d > Well, and where do i know that from? In every other distro, the rotating is done simply on everything in /var/log, OR it is intelligent enough to read out the loggers configurations... So take it as suggestion then. Perhaps add a kind of fallback-script in future to /etc/logrotate.d? And where is the docu for that? Kind regards, Florian
(In reply to comment #2) > (In reply to comment #1) > > So add entries for things you need to rotate to /etc/logrotate.d > Well, and where do i know that from? > In every other distro, the rotating is done simply on everything in /var/log, OR > it is intelligent enough to read out the loggers configurations... man logrotate > Perhaps add a kind of fallback-script in future > to /etc/logrotate.d? > > And where is the docu for that? man logrotate http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=9#doc_chap2 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/security/security-handbook.xml?part=1&chap=3 Not possible to add a fallback script, various applications creating logs require different approach for log rotation - see some files in /etc/logrotate.d that we install for various apps. Feel free to file a new bug if you think that a particular ebuild that creates logs should install logrotate script by default, this bug is however invalid.
