New logrotate script broken with openrc, with the new version, /var/log/messages gets rotated, but logrotate never gets a signal telling it to reopen the log files so it never switches to the new file. The log file also never gets rotated after the first failed rotation, likely because logrotate doesn't see the point in rotating a 0 byte file. # ls -la /var/log/messages* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 22 03:10 /var/log/messages -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 542M Oct 1 20:58 /var/log/messages-20130922
The new logrotate script also appears to try to rotate a bunch of files that the default gentoo config does not generate, and does not rotate ones that are generated. Here is an older version of the file: /var/log/messages /var/log/secure /var/log/maillog /var/log/cron /var/log/spooler /var/log/boot.log { sharedscripts postrotate /etc/init.d/rsyslog reload &>/dev/null || true endscript } Here is the new one: /var/log/syslog { rotate 1 daily missingok notifempty delaycompress compress postrotate kill -HUP $(cat /run/rsyslogd.pid) &>/dev/null || true endscript } /var/log/mail.info /var/log/mail.warn /var/log/mail.err /var/log/mail.log /var/log/daemon.log /var/log/kern.log /var/log/auth.log /var/log/user.log /var/log/lpr.log /var/log/cron.log /var/log/debug /var/log/messages { rotate 1 weekly missingok notifempty compress delaycompress sharedscripts postrotate kill -HUP $(cat /run/rsyslogd.pid) &>/dev/null || true endscript } It seems like the new version was copied verbatim from another distro, and not updated to support gentoo properly.
The logrotate script hasn't changed between all versions currently in the tree, it is the one from files/7-stable/rsyslog.logrotate :/
What's your logrotate version? Please verify that you are not affected by the already fixed bug 476720 (and bug 476202). Also, logrotate-3.8.7 is working fine on all my systems with rsyslog-7.4.4. Like Pacho said, the logrotate files weren't changed. May I ask why this bug got marked as "confirmed"?
Please reopen if you have something to add mate.
