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

[Mick]

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