Bug#534219: Logrotate was inheriting a path from cron

That explains it then. Logrotate was inheriting a path from cron without /usr/sbin. > I'm a little surprised Michael didn't suspect that a non-default environment > was the likely problem. It is the default environment, it just happened to be the default environment you get when you run 'crontab

Bug#534219: The logrotate conf doesn't HUP rsyslog effectively

Package: rsyslog Version: 3.18.6-4 Severity: important Tags: patch The rsyslog package (and some others) install an extension conf file at /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog . This file makes a noble effort at triggering rsyslog to start a new file after rotation: postrotate invoke