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Hi guys,

I've got two separate logrotates I'd like to run, one for Tomcat and one for Apache, but I'd like to run the Tomcat one daily and the Apache one weekly. Now, the logrotate itself is working fine, but although I have 'daily' in Tomcat, and 'weekly' in the Apache one, the latter is rotating everynight rather than weekly.

I have added logrotate from cron.daily into cron.weekly but it's not had an affect, is there a step that I have missed ?

Here is my Tomcat one:

Code:

/var/log/tomcat6/catalina.out { 
copytruncate 
daily 
rotate 7 
compress 
missingok 
size 500M 
}

And my Apache one

Code:

/var/log/httpd/*log {
weekly
missingok
copytruncate
rotate 4
compress
notifempty
sharedscripts
postrotate
   /sbin/service httpd reload > /dev/null 2>/dev/null || true
endscript
}

Does anyone have any ideas where I've went wrong ? It's driving me insane!!!

Cheers

- Jim

Hi, have you checked for the contents of /etc/logrotate.conf and the contents of files in /etc/logrotate.d/ ?

It may be that some of those configuration files already contains specifications for the apache logs (tose in /var/log/httpd) that override the 'weekly' setting in your custom apache logrotate configuration file.

see ya
fra

Hi frappa,

Yeah, the contents of /etc/logrotate.conf is as default and have never been changed. I've been through all the separate configuration files in /etc/logrotate.d and none of them have anything related to Apache contained in them.

I've tried it with and without the 'weekly' setting in the Apache config file as logrotate.conf has weekly as it's default setting but it hasn't made any difference!

Totally confused with this one. I also tried it with the logrotate config file for cron.daily inside cron.weekly too, but that made no difference either.

Any more ideas !?

- Jim