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. ---- > > ls -l /var/log/mesasges: > -rw------- 1 root root 2154163 Nov 20 07:32 /var/log/messages > > I realize this is probably not the way to test this, but this is also one > of the items in /etc that I did not copy over from my FC2 install. I had > made some additions to the list of logs to rotate and as a check, they > are not there. And as you'll recall, I did not have an /etc/crontab file > until kcron wrote it. > > I've also mounted the FC6 iso, and tried to -F --freshen the package, and > I've tried to verify it, all without either effecting whats installed or > fixing this problem. > > The 'service crond restart' output is the usual stop, start. > > So what would be the proper way to exec this for troubleshooting? Maybe > there are other things crond should be doing but isn't. ---- It would seem that the first thing to do would be to 'verify' your install... rpm -V logrotate rpm -V vixie-cron Craig
