<![CDATA[iRedMail — logrotate does not seem to work via cron]]> 2012-12-18T10:05:17Z PunBB http://www.iredmail.org/forum/topic4292-logrotate-does-not-seem-to-work-via-cron.html <![CDATA[Re: logrotate does not seem to work via cron]]> No idea yet, sorry. sad
Please try to perform some more debugs yourself to figure it out.

]]> http://www.iredmail.org/forum/user2.html 2012-12-18T10:05:17Z http://www.iredmail.org/forum/post19603.html#p19603 <![CDATA[Re: logrotate does not seem to work via cron]]> ZhangHuangbin wrote:

Do you have service "cron" running?

yes:

root@www:~# ps ax | grep cron
 1400 ?        Ss     1:22 /usr/sbin/cron
30642 pts/0    R+     0:00 grep cron

And other cron jobs run ok.

]]> http://www.iredmail.org/forum/user31169.html 2012-12-18T09:40:58Z http://www.iredmail.org/forum/post19599.html#p19599 <![CDATA[Re: logrotate does not seem to work via cron]]> Do you have service "cron" running?

]]> http://www.iredmail.org/forum/user2.html 2012-12-18T07:35:33Z http://www.iredmail.org/forum/post19592.html#p19592 <![CDATA[logrotate does not seem to work via cron]]> ==== Required information ====
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- iRedMail version: 0.8.3
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Hi Zhang,

I use Debian Squeeze and logrotate does not seem to be called via cron. My log files grew very big.
Today I did some research:

- in /etc/crontab it says
  16 0 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )
- in /etc/cron.daily/logrotate it says:
  #!/bin/sh
  test -x /usr/sbin/logrotate || exit 0
  /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf
- in syslog I see
  Dec 17 01:16:01 www /USR/SBIN/CRON[13319]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily ))
  No more warnings or error messages then concerning logrotate.

So I see in syslog that anacron tries to run scripts in cron.daily, but logs are NOT rotated, they still grow.

If manually run "/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf" all is fine and all logs are rotated.
Any ideas?

Best regards,
Oliver

]]> http://www.iredmail.org/forum/user31169.html 2012-12-17T12:36:39Z http://www.iredmail.org/forum/post19579.html#p19579