I am having problems with logrotate. The configuration is the following
/var/log/cron
/var/log/maillog
/var/log/messages
/var/log/secure
/var/log/spooler
/var/log/unused.log
/var/log/kern.log
/var/log/daemon.log
{
#Modified by CGSL!
compress
dateext
maxage 90
rotate 100
missingok
notifempty
size +4096k
create 640 root root
sharedscripts
postrotate
/bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
endscript
}
I am interested in rotating the /var/log/daemon.log, the output of executing
logrotate -fv /etc/logrotate.d/syslog
is
reading config file /etc/logrotate.d/syslog
reading config info for /var/log/cron
/var/log/maillog
/var/log/messages
/var/log/secure
/var/log/spooler
/var/log/unused.log
/var/log/kern.log
/var/log/daemon.log
Handling 1 logs
rotating pattern: /var/log/cron
/var/log/maillog
/var/log/messages
/var/log/secure
/var/log/spooler
/var/log/unused.log
/var/log/kern.log
/var/log/daemon.log
forced from command line (100 rotations)
empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /var/log/cron
log needs rotating
considering log /var/log/maillog
log needs rotating
considering log /var/log/messages
log needs rotating
considering log /var/log/secure
log needs rotating
considering log /var/log/spooler
log does not need rotating
considering log /var/log/unused.log
log needs rotating
considering log /var/log/kern.log
log needs rotating
considering log /var/log/daemon.log
log needs rotating
rotating log /var/log/cron, log->rotateCount is 100
dateext suffix '-20190411'
glob pattern '-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]'
rotating log /var/log/maillog, log->rotateCount is 100
dateext suffix '-20190411'
glob pattern '-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]'
rotating log /var/log/messages, log->rotateCount is 100
dateext suffix '-20190411'
glob pattern '-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]'
destination /var/log/messages-20190411.gz already exists, skipping rotation
rotating log /var/log/secure, log->rotateCount is 100
dateext suffix '-20190411'
glob pattern '-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]'
rotating log /var/log/unused.log, log->rotateCount is 100
dateext suffix '-20190411'
glob pattern '-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]'
rotating log /var/log/kern.log, log->rotateCount is 100
dateext suffix '-20190411'
glob pattern '-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]'
glob finding old rotated logs failed
rotating log /var/log/daemon.log, log->rotateCount is 100
dateext suffix '-20190411'
glob pattern '-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]'
glob finding old rotated logs failed
set default create context
What does this error mean?
glob finding old rotated logs failed
Best Answer
The problem was solved using
without "v" option.