Sometimes the post/pre rotate scripts will change the PWD. So it could be
looking for the file under a different directory.
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John Horne wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am starting to see the following error on two RH6.1 systems:
>
> errors occured while rotating /var/log/netconf.log
>
> stat of /var/log/netconf.log failed: No such file or directory
>
> However, the ls command shows:
>
> {john}: ls -l /var/log/netconf*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 1 04:02 /var/log/netconf.log
>
> So I can't see why it is now complaining. The only 'change' done recently
> was that I tightened up the ipchains rules. But then I'd expect it to
> fallover with some other error really. Also if I run '/usr/sbin/logrotate
> /tmp/lc' (where /tmp/lc is just a small config file to rotate the netconf
> logs; taken from /etc/logrotate.conf and /etc/cron.daily/linuxconf) then it
> does not show any errors.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> John.
>
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