Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate ... won't!

[Mick]

On Sunday 12 Feb 2017 19:11:23 Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 6:57 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
> > I am perplexed why box of mine will not logrotate system logs, which have
> > now grown into gigs.  kern.log, syslog, messages, etc. are eating up
> > space unconstrained, to the point where the partition run out of it.
> >
> > Trying to run /etc/cron.daily/logrotate from a terminal does not show
> > anything in messages, or syslog.
> >
> > Particulars below:
> >
> > # ls -la /etc/cron.daily/logrotate
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 179 Feb 12 16:09 /etc/cron.daily/logrotate
> >
> >
> > # cat /etc/cron.daily/logrotate
> > #!/bin/sh
> >
> > /usr/bin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf
> > EXITVALUE=$?
> > if [ $EXITVALUE != 0 ]; then
> >
> >     /usr/bin/logger -t logrotate "ALERT exited abnormally with
> >     [$EXITVALUE]"
> >
> > fi
> > exit 0
> >
> >
> > This is an installation I have not really changed much from default
> > settings. Comparing with other systems which work as expected I can't see
> > anything amiss. How could I troubleshoot/fix this problem?
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Mick
>
> I had a similar problem a while back, and Alex Corkwell suggested
> removing the executable bit on /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron, which did
> the trick for me.
>
> See gentoo-user archives for an email exchange with 'portage summary
> logs not rotated any more' as the subject for full details.
>
> Hope this helps.

Thanks Alexander, it pays going back to basics ... for some reason my cronie 
service was not running.  o_O

I added it to default runlevel and hopefully it will do its magic from now on.
-- 
Regards,
Mick