I've CentOS 7.4 with logrotate 3.8.6 installed. I've a custom logrotate file under /etc/logrotate.d/ to rotate some logs on a Tomcat (e.g., catalina.out) which is installed in the same machine.
/opt/test/apache-tomcat-8.5.15-client/logs/catalina.out {
copytruncate
daily
rotate 30
olddir /opt/test/apache-tomcat-8.5.15-client/logs/backup
compress
missingok
maxsize 50M
dateext
dateformat .%Y-%m-%d
}
I want the log to be rotated daily or if the size reaches 50MB. When this happens log files are compressed and copied into a backup folder and are kept for 30 days before being deleted.
I already ran logrotate manually in debug mode with the following command and no errors were displayed (and the expected zipped log files were created):
/usr/sbin/logrotate -d /etc/logrotate.d/openncp-tomcat-backoffice 2> /tmp/logrotate.debug
In /var/lib/logrotate/logrotate.status there are no issues, the files are shown as rotated but they're not in fact:
"/var/log/yum.log" 2017-11-27-19:0:0
"/opt/test/apache-tomcat-8.5.15-server/logs/catalina.out" 2017-12-15-3:41:1
"/var/log/boot.log" 2017-12-15-3:41:1
"/var/log/up2date" 2017-11-27-19:0:0
I've the default /etc/logrotate.conf:
# see "man logrotate" for details
# rotate log files weekly
weekly
# keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs
rotate 4
# create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
create
# use date as a suffix of the rotated file
dateext
# uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
#compress
# RPM packages drop log rotation information into this directory
include /etc/logrotate.d
# no packages own wtmp and btmp -- we'll rotate them here
/var/log/wtmp {
monthly
create 0664 root utmp
minsize 1M
rotate 1
}
/var/log/btmp {
missingok
monthly
create 0600 root utmp
rotate 1
}
# system-specific logs may be also be configured here.
I also have the default /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
According to the logrotate manpage:
maxsize size
Log files are rotated when they grow bigger than size bytes even before the additionally specified time interval ( daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly). The related size option is similar except that it is mutually exclusive with the time interval options, and it causes log files to be rotated without regard for the last rotation time. When maxsize is used, both the size and timestamp of a log file are considered.
I've noticed that so far the logs have not reached 50MB, and several days have passed without any rotation.
I ask for your guidance on configuring this appropriately.
