On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 08:52 -0700, David G. Miller wrote: > 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. ---- I believe that is another way of saying what I said. Craig
