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Logrotate with catalina.out "daily compressed file is overwriting the logs"
Hi Everyone,

We are trying to do a logrotate for "catalina.out" daily, So have used the "copytruncate" option in the logrotate configuration but ended up seeing there was a 0kb file touched with "catalina.out" and the other file with the current date(compressed) file created and seems the log is writing to it as below.

The expected behavior is the log should be written to "catalina.out" and there should not be a today dated compressed file that is getting written. Can someone please suggest..

Config:
Code:
/var/log/tomcat/catalina.out {
    copytruncate
    daily
    rotate 7
    compress
    missingok
}

Code:
Log file:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tomcat www 139K Dec 21 03:39 catalina.out-20151220.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tomcat www  20K Jan  5 06:48 catalina.out-20160105.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tomcat www 3.9K Jan  6 03:11 catalina.out-20160106.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tomcat www  11K Jan  7 03:43 catalina.out-20160107.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tomcat www 2.9K Jan  8 03:41 catalina.out-20160108.gz   ----- it's getting updated here & it should have not been compressed today..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tomcat www    0 Jan  8 03:41 catalina.out  ----- Expecting this file to be updated
 logrotate.d]$ date
Fri Jan  8 06:41:34 CST 2016

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Last edited by jim mcnamara; 01-08-2016 at 09:38 AM..
 
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