logrotate create group not working

Question

cat /etc/issue
Welcome to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 for VMware (x86_64) - Kernel \r (\l).

rpm -qf /etc/logrotate.conf
logrotate-3.7.7-10.22

tail -n15 /etc/logrotate.d/syslog
/var/log/mail /var/log/messages {
compress
dateext
maxage 365
rotate 99
missingok
notifempty
size +4096k
create 644 root news
sharedscripts
postrotate
/etc/init.d/syslog reload
endscript
}

logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.d/syslog

ls -l /var/log/mail /var/log/messages
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 2015-09-01 13:18 /var/log/mail
-rw-r----- 1 root root 179 2015-09-01 14:00 /var/log/messages

What is wrong with this configuration file?

Answer 1

logrotatie is fine, problem is the "/etc/init.d/syslog reload". Files change the group owner by syslog. There is no problem on SUSE 10 with syslog-ng version1.

My workaround: add line "chgrp news /var/log/mail /var/log/messages" after "/etc/init.d/syslog reload".