Re: [gentoo-user] Logrotate ignores standard log files

[Michael]

On Monday, 3 August 2020 07:58:03 BST Bertram Scharpf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I detected that since mid-May my main log files
> /var/log/{messages,auth.log,daemon.log,...}
> don't get rotated any more.
>
> I tried to solve this by making an entry in
> /etc/logrotate.conf, but that doesn't work.
> "maxsize" works, but not "weekly" nor "daily".
>
> What happened in May and what do I have to try?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Bertram

Is the default cron job there, or did you remove it?

$ ls -la /etc/cron.daily/logrotate 
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 188 Jun 13  2019 /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 $EXITVALUE