topic Re: Logrotate in Operating System - HP-UX

Logrotate

Geetha_1 — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:43:06 GMT

Can anybody list the steps involved in configuring logrotate for hp-ux 11.0? I get the following error

error reading top line of /opt/logrotate/adm/logrotate.status

( I didn't have a logrotate.status file, just touched one - not sure what the syntax of this state file is). My /etc/logrotate.conf file has the foll lines

#Sample Log rotate Configuration file
/var/log/syslog/syslog.log {
rotate 5
weekly
postrotate
/sbin/killall -HUP syslogd
endscript
}

Thanks!
Geetha.

Re: Logrotate

Jeff_Traigle — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:57:24 GMT

As long as /opt/logrotate/adm exists, logrotate should create the status file on it's own. (The depot on the Porting and Archive site doesn't create this directory.) On my systems, the permissions are:

drwxr-x--x 2 root sys 96 Feb 14 2006 adm

Status file was created with these permissions:

-rw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 2088 Dec 17 23:59 logrotate.status

First line of the status file is:

logrotate state -- version 1

Re: Logrotate

Geetha_1 — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:50:25 GMT

Thanks, Jeff! I got rid of the error - but I tested it out and it doesn't seem to rotate the syslog.

My /etc/logrotate.conf

#Sample Log rotate Configuration file
/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log {
rotate 5
daily
postrotate
/sbin/killall -HUP syslogd
endscript
}

what is wrong?

crontab entry

# Logrotate
45 14 * * * /opt/logrotate/bin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf >/tmp/logrotate.cron 2>&1

Re: Logrotate

Jeff_Traigle — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:00:28 GMT

It's a bit goofy. The first time it runs, it doesn't rotate the log. It just updates the status file. The next scheduled run, it will actually perform the rotation. On the newer versions, there's a -f option, I think, that would force a rotation, but that option isn't available on the ancient version on the P&A site.

Re: Logrotate

Heironimus — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:23:13 GMT

Just a side note - that syntax for killall is not appropriate for HP-UX. That's a Linux-specific syntax and using it on HP-UX will do nothing if you're lucky and could have dire consequences if you aren't. What you really want is probably something like:

kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslog.pid`

Re: Logrotate

Geetha_1 — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:47:05 GMT

Thanks! For the tip and the correction on the killall syntax.