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Old 03-01-2013
File is missing after logrotate!!
I am having a requirement to rotate the my application logs dailay as it is keep on writiing to single file and below is the logrotate function which I am using,

Code:
cat /apps/bmc/bmtm/QPasa_logrotate.conf
/apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log {
    missingok
    notifempty
    daily
    rotate 15
    create 0755 mqm mqm
}

when I execute the about function with logrotate with debug mode it is clearly showing that log files are rotated however when I do list the files they are not availble and the orignal file has the same content.

Code:
/usr/sbin/logrotate -dv /apps/bmc/bmtm/QPasa_logrotate.conf
reading config file /apps/bmc/bmtm/QPasa_logrotate.conf
reading config info for /apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log
Handling 1 logs
rotating pattern: /apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log  after 1 days (15 rotations)
empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log
  log needs rotating
considering log /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log
  log needs rotating
rotating log /apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log, log->rotateCount is 15
renaming /apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log.15 to /apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log.16 (rotatecount 15, logstart 1, i 15),
renaming /apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log.14 to /apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log.15 (rotatecount 15, logstart 1, i 14),
renaming /apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log.13 to /apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log.14 (rotatecount 15, logstart 1, i 13),
renaming /apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log.12 to /apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log.13 (rotatecount 15, logstart 1, i 12),
renaming /apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log.11 to /apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log.12 (rotatecount 15, logstart 1, i 11),
renaming /apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log.10 to /apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log.11 (rotatecount 15, logstart 1, i 10),
renaming /apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log.9 to /apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log.10 (rotatecount 15, logstart 1, i 9),
renaming /apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log.8 to /apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log.9 (rotatecount 15, logstart 1, i 8),
renaming /apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log.7 to /apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log.8 (rotatecount 15, logstart 1, i 7),
renaming /apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log.6 to /apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log.7 (rotatecount 15, logstart 1, i 6),
renaming /apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log.5 to /apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log.6 (rotatecount 15, logstart 1, i 5),
renaming /apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log.4 to /apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log.5 (rotatecount 15, logstart 1, i 4),
renaming /apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log.3 to /apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log.4 (rotatecount 15, logstart 1, i 3),
renaming /apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log.2 to /apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log.3 (rotatecount 15, logstart 1, i 2),
renaming /apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log.1 to /apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log.2 (rotatecount 15, logstart 1, i 1),
renaming /apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log.0 to /apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log.1 (rotatecount 15, logstart 1, i 0),
renaming /apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log to /apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log.1
creating new log mode = 0755 uid = 135106 gid = 59
removing old log /apps/bmc/bmtm/all_events.log.16
rotating log /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log, log->rotateCount is 15
renaming /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log.15 to /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log.16 (rotatecount 15, logstart 1, i 15),
renaming /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log.14 to /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log.15 (rotatecount 15, logstart 1, i 14),
renaming /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log.13 to /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log.14 (rotatecount 15, logstart 1, i 13),
renaming /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log.12 to /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log.13 (rotatecount 15, logstart 1, i 12),
renaming /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log.11 to /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log.12 (rotatecount 15, logstart 1, i 11),
renaming /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log.10 to /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log.11 (rotatecount 15, logstart 1, i 10),
renaming /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log.9 to /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log.10 (rotatecount 15, logstart 1, i 9),
renaming /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log.8 to /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log.9 (rotatecount 15, logstart 1, i 8),
renaming /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log.7 to /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log.8 (rotatecount 15, logstart 1, i 7),
renaming /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log.6 to /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log.7 (rotatecount 15, logstart 1, i 6),
renaming /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log.5 to /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log.6 (rotatecount 15, logstart 1, i 5),
renaming /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log.4 to /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log.5 (rotatecount 15, logstart 1, i 4),
renaming /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log.3 to /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log.4 (rotatecount 15, logstart 1, i 3),
renaming /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log.2 to /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log.3 (rotatecount 15, logstart 1, i 2),
renaming /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log.1 to /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log.2 (rotatecount 15, logstart 1, i 1),
renaming /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log.0 to /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log.1 (rotatecount 15, logstart 1, i 0),
renaming /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log to /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log.1
creating new log mode = 0755 uid = 135106 gid = 59
removing old log /apps/bmc/bmtm/history_association.log.16

Here is the log file listing and there are no log file found after the rotation.

Code:
 ls -l all*
-rwxrw-rw- 1 mqm mqm 13662 Feb 28 05:55 all_events.log
 ls -l his*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mqm mqm 2401369 Mar  1 00:00 history_association.log

kinldy assist me to fix this issue.
# 2  
Old 03-01-2013
Read the logrotate manpage. What you are seeing is the expected behavior using the debug option.
Quote:
-d

Turns on debug mode and implies -v. In debug mode, no changes will be made to the logs or to the logrotate state file.
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