Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 07:36 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> Two weeks now since I installed FC6, and still no logrotation is being
> done.
>
> Stepping into /etc/logrotate.d, and doing an sh ./syslog results in this:
>
> [root@coyote logrotate.d]# sh ./syslog
> ./syslog: line 1: /var/log/messages: Permission denied
> ./syslog: line 2: sharedscripts: command not found
> ./syslog: line 3: postrotate: command not found
> ./syslog: line 5: endscript: command not found
> ./syslog: line 6: syntax error near unexpected token `}'
> ./syslog: line 6: `}'
----
not that I wish to follow in your footsteps but if it's any consolation,
that occurs when I do that on my system too. But I am not going to spend
any time trying to figure out why.
It happened because it's supposed to happen. The files in
/etc/logrotate.d aren't executable. They're configuration files for
each of the logs that logrotate acts on.
If you want to try running logrotate, your best bet would probably be to
run the file in /etc/cron.daily:
# cat /etc/cron.daily/logrotate
#!/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf
EXITVALUE=$?
if [ $EXITVALUE != 0 ]; then
/usr/bin/logger -t logrotate "ALERT exited abnormally with [$EXITVALUE]"
fi
exit 0
but verify the rpms first.
Cheers,
Dave
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