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Logrotate Problem in cron daemon

Muhib Tanim — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:04:51 GMT

Hi

/opt/logrotate/bin/logrotate logrotate.conf executes successfully and fulfill my target, which compressed the old logs.
but when I try to execute same command through cronjob it executes but not compressed only take the backup of old logs.
Then I execute a script through cron, where command and profile execution done.

Any one faced same type of problem before.

Re: Logrotate Problem in cron daemon

Pete Randall — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:54:51 GMT

Take a look at logrotate to see if the portion that is supposed to compress the old logs identifies the full path name of whatever command it is using.

Pete

Re: Logrotate Problem in cron daemon

OldSchool — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:58:07 GMT

most likely, this is related to a pathing problem when running from cron.

for example, when run from the command-line as noted:

/opt/logrotate/bin/logrotate logrotate.conf

what is your current directory, and is logrotate.conf in it?

My first step would be to put the full path to logrotate.conf in the cron job and see what happens.

Re: Logrotate Problem in cron daemon

Jeff_Traigle — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:36:21 GMT

We use a wrapper script that we run from cron that sets the PATH so gzip can be found by logrotate.

#!/usr/bin/sh

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/contrib/bin

/opt/logrotate/bin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf

Re: Logrotate Problem in cron daemon

Arturo Galbiati — Wed, 06 May 2009 06:23:20 GMT

Hi,
create a new script to add in crontab under teh user you run successfully online and add

. .profile
opt/logrotate/bin/logrotate logrotate.conf

to be sure that all neeede paths will be loaded.

HTH,
Art

Re: Logrotate Problem in cron daemon

Muhib Tanim — Thu, 07 May 2009 07:15:24 GMT

Thanks Jeff Traigle

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/contrib/bin

solved the problem

Re: Logrotate Problem in cron daemon

Muhib Tanim — Thu, 07 May 2009 07:17:59 GMT

solved