logrotate problems

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I have the following problem. When my logs are rotated something like that is procuded

-rw-r--r--    1 root admin 169K Sep 24 12:15 messages
-rw-r--r--    1 root admin    0 Sep 24 04:03 messages.1
-rw-r--r--    1 root admin    0 Sep 19 04:02 messages.11
-rw-r--r--    1 root admin   20 Aug 22 04:03 messages.1.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 root admin    0 Sep 23 04:02 messages.3
-rw-r--r--    1 root admin   20 Aug 21 04:02 messages.3.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 root admin    0 Sep 22 04:02 messages.5
-rw-r--r--    1 root admin   20 Aug 20 04:02 messages.5.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 root admin    0 Sep 21 04:02 messages.7
-rw-r--r--    1 root admin   20 Aug 19 04:03 messages.7.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 root admin    0 Sep 20 04:02 messages.9
-rw-r--r--    1 root admin   20 Aug 18 18:02 messages.9.gz

As you can see the even numbers are not compress, but the odd are. Any the most important is that there is not log kept !

My logrotate is the following …

Blah Blah {
nocompress
sharedscripts
rotate 12
weekly
postrotate

/bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/rsyslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true

endscript
}

What could be wrong ?

Answer

At last the problem is solved. The problem was that some of the directories were links to other directories, thus they were rotated twice. !!!!!!! It had as a result the produced files to be null !

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Source : Link , Question Author : Nikolaidis Fotis , Answer Author : Nikolaidis Fotis

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