For some reason logrotate is rotating logs daily instead of weekly, even though all the config files for logrotate seem to be set to weekly. Any ideas?
/etc/cron.daily/logrotate
#!/bin/sh
test -x /usr/sbin/logrotate || exit 0
/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf
/etc/logrotate.conf
# see "man logrotate" for details
# rotate log files weekly
weekly
# keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs
rotate 4
# create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
create
# uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
#compress
# packages drop log rotation information into this directory
include /etc/logrotate.d
# no packages own wtmp, or btmp -- we'll rotate them here
/var/log/wtmp {
missingok
monthly
create 0664 root utmp
rotate 1
}
/var/log/btmp {
missingok
monthly
create 0660 root utmp
rotate 1
}
# system-specific logs may be configured here
/etc/logrotate.d/apache
/var/log/apache2/*.log {
weekly
missingok
rotate 52
compress
delaycompress
notifempty
create 640 root adm
sharedscripts
postrotate
if [ -f "`. /etc/apache2/envvars ; echo ${APACHE_PID_FILE:-/var/run/apache2.pid}`" ]; then
/etc/init.d/apache2 reload > /dev/null
fi
endscript
}
Best Answer
Notice this line in
/etc/logrorate.conf
:Perhaps you have some stale or backup files lying around in that directory, which get included, and specify daily rotation?
As a workaround, and if you still can't figure it out, and if you only ever want to have your files rotated weekly, then you can change the frequency with which
logrotate
is executed through cron, thus changing the precision of log rotation from daily to weekly.