Re: logrotate problem

I think I've tracked this down to rsyslogd being updated a few days ago and it not restarting.

So I tried to restart it by hand with /etc/init.d/rsyslogd restart but it failed to stop. So trying to understand why it didn't stop, I tried running start-stop-daemon manually and here's what I see:

# start-stop-daemon -v --stop --retry=TERM/30/KILL/5 --pidfile /var/run/rsyslogd.pid --exec /usr/sbin/rsyslogd

No /usr/sbin/rsyslogd found running; none killed.

# ps ax | grep /usr/sbin/rsyslogd

3401 ? Sl 2:36 /usr/sbin/rsyslogd -c5

9922 pts/3 S+ 0:00 grep -i --color /usr/sbin/rsyslogd

# more /var/run/rsyslogd.pid

3401

Why would start-stop-daemon not be able to find /usr/sbin/rsysogd? It's spelled properly, it's pid is properly in the pid file. (Sure, I can kill it by hand but I really want to know why start-stop-daemon can't kill it because there is probably some underlying problem that needs solving!)

On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote:

On Mon, 6 Oct 2014 19:51:38 +0100
Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> wrote:

> When logrotate fired this month, almost all of my logs remain at zero
> length and the .1 log continues to grow. For example:
>
> ls -l /var/log
> ...
> -rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 Oct 5 06:25 messages
> -rw-r----- 1 root adm 4938 Oct 6 06:56 messages.1
> ...
> -rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 Oct 1 06:25 syslog
> -rw-r----- 1 root adm 15767734 Oct 6 13:17 syslog.1
>
> I'm running debian wheezy 7.6 on two separate systems.
>
> I'm guessing that logrotate didn't complete to restart the daemons.
> When I run logrotate -dv, I see no errors.
>
> I update both with cron-apt and I would not be surprised if one of the
> updates caused this but I'm not sure.
>
> Has anyone else seen this? Any idea how to fix it so this works next
> month?

Mine rotate every day, and seem to be doing so quite happily, but they
are on a server and it's run by the default cron system.

Have you tried running logrotate manually without -d? It's possible an
update has caused a permissions issue somewhere, and you may get clues
from the console.

--
Joe

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