Re: Why syslog is not rotating?

[Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 3 Nov 2013 11:29:58 +0200 (IST)
Itay <debian@itayf.fastmail.fm> wrote:
> ----------[Begin: /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog]----------
> /var/log/syslog
> {
>  	rotate 7
>  	daily
>  	missingok
>  	notifempty
>  	delaycompress
>  	compress
>  	postrotate
>  		invoke-rc.d rsyslog rotate > /dev/null
>  	endscript
> }
> 
> /var/log/mail.info
> /var/log/mail.warn
> /var/log/mail.err
> /var/log/mail.log
> /var/log/daemon.log
> /var/log/kern.log
> /var/log/auth.log
> /var/log/user.log
> /var/log/lpr.log
> /var/log/cron.log
> /var/log/debug
> /var/log/messages
> {
>  	rotate 4
>  	weekly
>  	missingok
>  	notifempty
>  	compress
>  	delaycompress
>  	sharedscripts
>  	postrotate
>  		invoke-rc.d rsyslog rotate > /dev/null
>  	endscript
> }
> ----------[End: /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog]----------
> 
> I appreciate the help.

Looks that's a stock one.
Try it like this:

1) Invoke as a root:

/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf


2) If it doesn't help, add 'size' stanza to
the /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog like this:

/var/log/syslog
{
        rotate 7
        daily
        missingok
        notifempty
        delaycompress
        compress
        size 1024k
        postrotate
                invoke-rc.d rsyslog rotate > /dev/null
        endscript
}

and invoke logrotate once more:

/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf

Reco