> From: ikuzar RABE <ikuzar9...@gmail.com> >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Sent: Wednesday, 27 January 2016, 16:32 >Subject: logrotate does not work on my log (Debian Jessie) > > > >Hi all, > >I upgraded my system from Debian 6 to Debian 8 Jessie. logrotate worked on my >log on Debian 6 (I got my_app.log.gz when I put /etc/logrotate.d/my_app). But it no longer works on Debian 8. However, I see /var/log/syslog.2.gz syslog.3.gz ...etc. >Is that because of systemd ? people who use Arch linux creates logrotate.service and logrotate.timer to solve this problem but what about debian users ? Did anyone meet this issue ? >
It could be due to changes in later versions of logrotate. What's the ownership of your my_app.log.gz files? As I recall later versions require a "su <user> <group>" line to rotate files that are not owned by root. Glyn
