Re: Error with logrotate.

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2019-08-13 06:59 +0300, Teemu Likonen wrote:

> philip@treads.nz [2019-08-13T09:30:34+12] wrote:
>
>> I just updated from Debian 8 to 9 and I'm getting the following error.  
>> I'm guessing it's something to do with permissions?
>>
>> Something to do with the create 640 root adm?
>>
>> /etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
>> error: unable to open /home/philip/logs/access.log.1 for compression
>> error: unable to open /home/philip/logs/error.log.1 for compression
>> run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1

Perhaps, but it is hard to tell without seeing the reason why logrotate
failed to open the file.  You could try to rebuild it with the attached
patch (untested).

> It could be because of /home not being writable for logrotate service.
> See Sven Joachim's message in 2019-07-21:
>
>     https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/07/msg01102.html

No, the logrotate package in Debian 9 does not use a systemd unit.

--- logrotate-3.11.0.orig/logrotate.c
+++ logrotate-3.11.0/logrotate.c
@@ -670,7 +670,8 @@ static int compressLogFile(char *name, s
     sprintf(compressedName, "%s%s", name, log->compress_ext);

     if ((inFile = open(name, O_RDWR | O_NOFOLLOW)) < 0) {
-	message(MESS_ERROR, "unable to open %s for compression\n", name);
+	message(MESS_ERROR, "unable to open %s for compression: %s\n",
+		name, strerror(errno));
 	return 1;
     }