Re: [gentoo-user] portage summary logs not rotated any more

[Alexander Kapshuk]

On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 7:49 PM, Alex Corkwell <i.am.the.memory@×××××.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 05, 2015 at 06:31:43PM +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
> >
> >     On Sunday 05 Apr 2015 14:19:16 Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
> >     > On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
> wrote:
> >     > An observation I've made, is that my log rotation seems to have
> effected
> >     > all other logs in /var/log as well. It seems to have stopped
> working
> >     around
> >     > January this year.
> >     >
> >     > ls -lt /var/log/messages*
> >     > -rw------- 1 root root 9986127 Apr  5 16:10 /var/log/messages
> >     > -rw------- 1 root root  173843 Jan 12 10:20
> /var/log/messages-20150112.gz
> >     > -rw------- 1 root root  277867 Jan  4 22:00
> /var/log/messages-20150104.gz
> >     > -rw------- 1 root root  132157 Dec 28 20:30
> /var/log/messages-20141228.gz
> >     > -rw------- 1 root root  142911 Dec 22 19:30
> /var/log/messages-20141222.gz
> >
> >     It seems to me that logrotate stopped rotating your logs back in
> Jan.  Did
> >     you
> >     change something in its configuration back then?
> >
> >     This is what I have in /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
> >     =================================================
> > I then went ahead and ran logrotate by hand, which resulted in the
> following
> > output:
> >
> > /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf
> > 501 Not authorised --- Reply not authenticated
> > 501 Not authorised --- Reply not authenticated
> > # echo $?
> > 0
> >
> > I guess I have to figure out what the error message shown below is all
> about:
> > 501 Not authorised --- Reply not authenticated
> >
> >
>
> I don't know about the "501 Not authorised", but I remember having a
> similar issue with logrotate not running beginning around the same time
> (the last rotated log was the week of 20141221). I can't remember
> exactly what I did, but I believe around then Gentoo (and my system)
> switched from vixie-cron to cronie as default. If I remember correctly,
> it was anacron that caused the problem.
>
> Take a look at these lines from the default (at least, on my system) for
> /etc/crontab:
>
> # check scripts in cron.hourly, cron.daily, cron.weekly and cron.monthly
> # if anacron is not present
> 59  *  * * *    root    [ ! -x /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron ] && rm -f
> /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly
> 9  3  * * *     root    [ ! -x /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron ] && rm -f
> /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily
> 19 4  * * 6     root    [ ! -x /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron ] && rm -f
> /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.weekly
> 29 5  1 * *     root    [ ! -x /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron ] && rm -f
> /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.monthly
> */10  *  * * *  root    [ ! -x /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron ] && { test -x
> /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons ; }
>
> Essentially, cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly} only get run if
> /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron is not executable. On my system, if I remember
> correctly, /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron had the executable bit set after I
> emerged cronie, but I never set up anacron. I don't know if it properly
> runs all the cron.* scripts regularly by default, but after a quick
> "chmod -x /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron" logrotate returned to running
> regularly.
>
> I really don't know what's going on with the 501, but I hope that helps
> with getting it to run regularly (at least, unless you actually know how
> to use anacron, in which you probably know whether or not this makes
> some sense).
>

That was it. Thanks a lot for the tip.