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OCI- Logrotate is not working in Oracle Linux
APPLIES TO:
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Linux OS
SYMPTOMS
System logs aren't rotating weekly:
/var/log/messages
/var/log/boot
/var/log/secure
Exp : Expected result -rw-------. 1 root root 2110300 Jun 17 18:03 messages -rw-------. 1 root root 6157909 May 26 03:42 messages-20240526 -rw-------. 1 root root 7599326 Jun 2 03:30 messages-20240602 -rw-------. 1 root root 7963394 Jun 9 03:40 messages-20240609 -rw-------. 1 root root 8104750 Jun 16 03:06 messages-20240616 [root@XXXX ~]# grep logrotate /var/log/cron >>>>>Does not show any log recorded
Despite below settings are correct logrotate is not working
cat /etc/cron.daily/logrotate #!/bin/sh /usr/sbin/logrotate -s /var/lib/logrotate/logrotate.status /etc/logrotate.conf EXITVALUE=$? if [ $EXITVALUE != 0 ]; then /usr/bin/logger -t logrotate "ALERT exited abnormally with [$EXITVALUE]" fi exit 0 # ls -la /etc/cron.daily/logrotate -rwx------. 1 root root 219 Nov 21 2019 /etc/cron.daily/logrotate # ls -la /etc/logrotate.d/ drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 10 Sep 7 21:26 . drwxrwxrwx 43 root root 86 Sep 7 21:26 . -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 91 Sep 7 21:26 bootlog -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 160 Sep 19 21:26 chrony -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 172 Sep 29 21:26 iscsiuiolog -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 224
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