On Monday 20 November 2006 08:31, Craig White 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. >---- > >> 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 > And they both do. When I ran it like Rick recommended, (logrotate -vf ./logrotate.conf) from the logrotate.d directory, then the real error popped out, and that was because there wasn't a user 'named' because bind wasn't installed. It is now and although bind isn't configured or running, logrorate, at least from the cli, now works. I even copied my old version of the logrotate.d/syslog from FC2 because it has all my additions in it, and it now Just Works(TM) from the cli at any rate. To me thats a packageing error, there shouldn't be a file in logrotate.d for named UNTIL bind has been installed. I guess most folks weren't bit because they do install bind. I generally use host files here. >Craig -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
