Re: Why syslog is not rotating?

[Itay <debian@itayf.fastmail.fm>]

On Sun, 3 Nov 2013, Reco wrote:

> Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 13:20:51 +0400
> From: Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Cc: Itay <debian@itayf.fastmail.fm>
> Subject: Re: Why syslog is not rotating?
> Resent-Date: Sun,  3 Nov 2013 09:21:12 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> On Sun, 3 Nov 2013 09:04:36 +0200 (IST)
> Itay <debian@itayf.fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2 Nov 2013, Sven Hartge wrote:
> > Thank you for your reply.
> >
> > My system was continuously on except for very short random periods and
> > 3 weeks on Aug 2013. In contrast, the listing below shows (I believe)
> > that syslog stopped rotating at 2010.
> >
> > # ls -gh /var/log/syslog*
> > -rw-r----- 1 adm 219M Nov  2 21:50 syslog
> > -rw-r----- 1 adm 2.5K Jun  5  2010 syslog.1
> > -rw-r----- 1 adm    0 Nov  1 07:50 syslog.1.gz
> > -rw-r----- 1 adm  661 Jun  5  2010 syslog.2.gz
> >
> > However:
> > I checked /etc/cron.daily and did not find entry for rsyslog.
> > Maybe that's the cause?
>
> On a stock Debian system logrotate is used to rotate rsyslog
> logfiles. This is configured in /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog.
> Logrotate is invoked at /etc/cron.daily/logrotate.
>
> Now, that listing shows that someone (possibly logrotate) DID create an
> empty syslog.1.gz file (on 1st Nov 2013), and that suggests that
> logrotate is misconfigured somehow.
>
> Can you please post a contents of /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog?
>
> Reco

Reposting:

----------[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.
Itay