Package: logrotate Version: 3.7-2 Followup-For: Bug #63196
Unknown to me I had created duplicate entries for a particular logfile. I'm not certain how it occurred but most likely I had installed the package involved from source in the distant past, created or installed a logrotate.d entry for it, uninstalled it then recently installed the debian package. The original logrotate.d entry remained in a differently-named file and so caused logrotate to fail. The real problem is that logrotate failed without any feedback whatsoever. I only discovered the problem by accident after almost 2 months (thankfully before filling the /var partition). The cause of the problem was instantly obvious when I ran /etc/cron.daily/logrotate from a shell but a diligent search in /var/log/* turned up a total of zero logrotate-related error messages. -- Package-specific info: Contents of /etc/logrotate.d total 23 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 366 2004-11-18 21:13 apache -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 382 2004-10-29 22:56 apache-ssl -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 199 2002-10-19 15:38 apache-ssl.dpkg-old -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 354 2003-01-22 21:42 apt-proxy -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 384 2004-11-12 03:56 base-config -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 113 2004-10-22 04:27 cron-apt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 82 2004-09-30 00:38 gup -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 280 2002-01-01 21:51 ippl -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 151 2002-01-27 23:54 iptraf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 79 2002-01-31 07:37 lvm-common -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1272 2004-11-18 06:36 mailman -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1173 2000-08-03 21:54 mailman.dpkg-old -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 112 2004-07-25 23:12 mgetty -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 74 2004-04-07 00:41 mrtg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 136 2004-11-10 22:52 postgresql -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 94 2004-07-17 03:30 ppp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 280 2004-02-16 09:13 privoxy -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 108 2004-12-05 19:08 shorewall -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 301 2002-03-26 01:53 squid -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 105 2000-03-31 18:38 sucker -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 298 2004-09-29 05:34 uucp -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (991, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i586) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-1-k6 Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages logrotate depends on: ii anacron 2.3-10 a cron-like program that doesn't g ii base-passwd 3.5.9 Debian base system master password ii cron 3.0pl1-86 management of regular background p ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
