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

[Mick]

On Sunday 05 Apr 2015 06:39:31 Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 1:18 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
> > On Saturday 04 Apr 2015 20:35:31 Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
> > > My portage summary logs don't seem to be rotated any more.
> > >
> > > ls -lt `pwd`/summary.log*
> > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 portage portage 96581 Apr  3 19:47
> > > /var/log/portage/elog/summary.log
> > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 portage portage  5927 Jan 10 07:50
> > > /var/log/portage/elog/summary.log-20150112
> > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 portage portage  2281 Jan  4 21:14
> > > /var/log/portage/elog/summary.log-20150104.gz
> > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 portage portage   565 Dec 26 20:53
> > > /var/log/portage/elog/summary.log-20141228.gz
> > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 portage portage  1842 Dec 22 17:52
> > > /var/log/portage/elog/summary.log-20141222.gz
> > >
> > > grep Messages summary.log | sed '1h;$!d;x;G;q'
> > >
> > > >>> Messages generated by process 3399 on 2015-01-13 17:47:47 EET for
> > >
> > > package dev-python/reportlab-3.1.8-r2:
> > > >>> Messages generated by process 4080 on 2015-04-03 19:47:54 EEST for
> > >
> > > package net-print/hplip-3.14.1:
> > >
> > > grep Messages summary.log-20150112 | sed '1h;$!d;x;G;q'
> > >
> > > >>> Messages generated by process 2637 on 2015-01-04 22:02:00 EET for
> > >
> > > package app-office/libreoffice-4.2.8.2:
> > > >>> Messages generated by process 3483 on 2015-01-10 07:50:04 EET for
> > >
> > > package dev-libs/openssl-1.0.1k:
> > >
> > > cat /etc/logrotate.d/elog-save-summary
> > > # Copyright 1999-2011 Gentoo Foundation
> > > # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
> > > # Rotate the log created by the save_summary elog module.
> > >
> > > /var/log/portage/elog/summary.log {
> > >
> > >     su portage portage
> > >     missingok
> > >     nocreate
> > >     delaycompress
> > >
> > > }
> > >
> > > /etc/logrotate.conf:6,8
> > > # rotate log files weekly.
> > > weekly
> > > #daily
> > >
> > > What could be wrong here? Or am I misreading something?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> >
> > Is your logrotate running regularly as expected?  What do you get when
> >
> > from:
> >  grep logrotate /var/log/cron.log
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Mick
>
> Thanks for your response.
>
> I'm afraid I don't have the cron logging set up. I should probably go ahead
> and do it, shouldn't I?
>
> grep logrotate /var/log/cron.log
> grep: /var/log/cron.log: No such file or directory
>
> The cron daemon is running though.
>
> ps auxwww|grep '[c]ron'
> root      2418  0.0  0.1   5464  1868 ?        Ss   08:33   0:00
> /usr/sbin/crond
>
> Thanks.

Ah! I must have set this up myself.  In /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf I have 
among other settings:

destination cron { file("/var/log/cron.log"); };
filter f_cron { facility(cron); };
log { source(src); filter(f_cron); destination(cron); };

This is not necessary though.  You can search /var/log/messages for logrotate.

-- 
Regards,
Mick