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
I ask for your guidance on configuring this appropriately.
The problem was related to the SELinux file type of the log files, which were located in a directory different from /var/log, meaning that the logrotate process didn't have access to perform its tasks. I found this other SO thread as well as this Redhat page that helped to solve the issue. I found the Redhat documentation very helpful, so I provide here 2 links: