Comments on: Rotating your Standard Out/Err log files http://ghattus.com/2008/04/09/rotating-your-standard-outerr-log-files/ A blog about technology that I work on in my day to day job Mon, 20 Sep 2010 23:28:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: puru http://ghattus.com/2008/04/09/rotating-your-standard-outerr-log-files/comment-page-1/#comment-33 puru Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:14:00 +0000 http://ghattus.com/2008/04/rotating-your-standard-outerr-log-files/#comment-33 Hi,<br/>I am facing the same problems as raghu. Does any body has a workaround for this?<br/><br/>My conf file looks like <br/><br/>{<br/>missingok<br/>copytruncate<br/>rotate 7<br/>compress<br/>notifempty<br/>sharedscripts<br/>postrotate<br/>endscript<br/>} Hi,
I am facing the same problems as raghu. Does any body has a workaround for this?

My conf file looks like

{
missingok
copytruncate
rotate 7
compress
notifempty
sharedscripts
postrotate
endscript
}

]]> By: Raghu http://ghattus.com/2008/04/09/rotating-your-standard-outerr-log-files/comment-page-1/#comment-32 Raghu Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:42:00 +0000 http://ghattus.com/2008/04/rotating-your-standard-outerr-log-files/#comment-32 Hi After using the logrotate, the file becomes 0 bytes and after sometime it is being restored to the original size. Also I see the disk space not beinf released.<br/><br/>Any ideas on this? Hi After using the logrotate, the file becomes 0 bytes and after sometime it is being restored to the original size. Also I see the disk space not beinf released.

Any ideas on this?

]]> By: Anonymous http://ghattus.com/2008/04/09/rotating-your-standard-outerr-log-files/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Anonymous Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:04:00 +0000 http://ghattus.com/2008/04/rotating-your-standard-outerr-log-files/#comment-31 I cannot get it to work, my script looks like this<br/><br/>/export/home/aratnam/logs/*.out {<br/>copytruncate<br/>compress<br/>rotate 1<br/>size=100k<br/>sharedscripts<br/>olddir /export/home/aratnam/old-logs<br/>postrotate<br/>time=`date +%s`<br/>echo $time<br/>mkdir -p /export/home/aratnam/old-logs/$time<br/>mv /export/home/aratnam/logs/*.out.1.gz /export/home/aratnam/old-logs/$time<br/>endscript<br/>}<br/><br/>I get the following error<br/>error: /etc/logrotate.conf:7 bad olddir path /export/home/aratnam/old-logs<br/>error: found error in /export/home/aratnam/logs/*.out , skipping<br/>error: /etc/logrotate.conf:7 } expected I cannot get it to work, my script looks like this

/export/home/aratnam/logs/*.out {
copytruncate
compress
rotate 1
size=100k
sharedscripts
olddir /export/home/aratnam/old-logs
postrotate
time=`date +%s`
echo $time
mkdir -p /export/home/aratnam/old-logs/$time
mv /export/home/aratnam/logs/*.out.1.gz /export/home/aratnam/old-logs/$time
endscript
}

I get the following error
error: /etc/logrotate.conf:7 bad olddir path /export/home/aratnam/old-logs
error: found error in /export/home/aratnam/logs/*.out , skipping
error: /etc/logrotate.conf:7 } expected

]]> By: Anonymous http://ghattus.com/2008/04/09/rotating-your-standard-outerr-log-files/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Anonymous Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:57:00 +0000 http://ghattus.com/2008/04/rotating-your-standard-outerr-log-files/#comment-30 If you use the second method "logrotate" do null characters get added to the beginning of the cleared logfile once the existing process starts writing there again? How does copytruncate avoid this? I know that just cat'ing /dev/null into the stdout log will cause this to happen (fill w/ nulls). If you use the second method “logrotate” do null characters get added to the beginning of the cleared logfile once the existing process starts writing there again? How does copytruncate avoid this? I know that just cat’ing /dev/null into the stdout log will cause this to happen (fill w/ nulls).

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