logrotate

[Ulf Rompe]

On Fr, 2008-09-26 at 13:28 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> I am using logrotate utility to compress catalina.out file. when i run
> it using debug mode, I get 
> #/usr/sbin/logrotate -dv /usr/local/bin/scripts/logrotate-tomcat5-catalina.conf
[...]
> copying /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out to /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.1
[...]
> error: unable to open /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.1 for compression
[...]
> Any ideas as what is going wrong

Well, you are running in debug mode. From the logrotate man page:

       -d     Turns  on  debug mode and implies -v.  In debug mode, no changes
              will be made to the logs or to the logrotate state file.

That means the error message is completely OK. Logrotate will start to
do it's work once you remove the "-d" option. If you want to monitor
it's progress, just stay with "-v".

[x] ulf 

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