[gentoo-user] Re: logrotate won't rotate portage logs

[Mick]

On Monday 15 January 2007 19:32, Mick wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I do not understand why the log files within /var/log/portage/ will
> not rotate on my PC, while they rotate fine on my laptop.  The
> /etc/logrotate.conf is the same on both boxen:
> ==========================================
> # rotate log files weekly
> weekly
> #daily
>
> # 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 can drop log rotation information into this directory
> include /etc/logrotate.d
>
> notifempty
> nomail
> noolddir
>
> [snip . . . ]
>
> # when /var/log/portage gets big
> /var/log/portage/*.log
> {
>     rotate 1
>     weekly
>     nocreate
>     ifempty
>     olddir /var/log/portage/old
>     postrotate
>  find /var/log/portage/old -maxdepth 1 -mtime +30 -exec /bin/rm -f {} \;
>     endscript
>     nocompress
> }
> ==========================================
>
> The only difference I noticed (other than the fact that I have two
> year old portage log files in /var/log/portage) between the two boxen
> is that the access rights of the 'old'  directory on the PC were:
>
> drwxr-sr-x 2 root    root          48 Dec 23  2005 old
>
> while on the laptop which rotates without problems are:
>
> drwx------ 2 root    root          4256 Jan 13  11:20 old
>
> This may be a bit of a red herring because even though I changed the
> access rights as per the laptop, the PC still refuses to rotate the
> portage log files.
>
> Any ideas?  How do I troubleshoot this one?

Anyone? Anything I could look into?
-- 
Regards,
Mick