Logrotate for error_log does not work for migrated domains

[Kurt Ludikovsky]

Problem:

Logrotation does not work for error_log for domains migrated from a previous version.
Plesk Version 12.5

When I checked my error_log's I found that those where not rotated and have reached huge sizes.
Whilel only the error log's where not rotated, the other log's (e.g. access_log, xfer_log, ..) seemed ok.
I futhermore figured out that non of the 'newer' domains where affected. 'Newer', as created on this installation. Only domains migrated from a previous installation (and version) where affected.

Resolution:

When trying to figure out the reason I got trough some KB articles here, and finally found KB Article 129196 which brought me to the solution.
Running the command's

/usr/local/psa/logrotate/sbin/logrotate -v -f /usr/local/psa/etc/logrotate.conf  2> logrotate.debug
grep 'error:' logrotate.debug

and analysing the output brought the following errors

error: error creating output file /var/www/vhosts/system/domain.tld/logs/error_log.1: File exists

only for the migrated domains.

A previously attempt to rename the error_log.1 in the

var/www/vhosts/domain.tld/logs/

directory did not yield a result.

After the renaming and re-running of the manual logrotate all seems ok now in the var/www/vhosts/system/domain.tld/logs/ directory. The log's in the var/www/vhosts/domain.tld/logs/ are not up to date yet, but this is minor, and might be ok after a scheduled run.

Hope this helps somebody.

 

[Mr.D]

Hello Kurt,

I cannot get to reproduce your issue. Could you provide more details about your environment like OS, Plesk version, MU for source and destination servers and version of Plesk Migrator.

 

[Kurt Ludikovsky]

Hello, Mr.D

It's Version 12.5.30 Update #53, zuletzt aktualisiert: 29. Nov. 2016 14:26:24 and a Debian 7

I migrated from a 11.5 System I think, because that's already some time ago.

What I found, was that the error_log.1 file, which was transfered, prohibits the execution of the logrotate. But this is only true for the error_log, I could not see the same issue with the access_log .
I just deleted (renamed) the error_log.1 and logrotate seems to work now.

I discovered the root by comparing newly created domains, where the problem did no arise, to the transfered ones. The major difference with the error_log.1 file.

Maybe a simple test, create a error_log.1 file in a log-directory (I don't know which one, as I don't understand the difference between the /var/www/vhosts/system/domain.tld/logs and the /var/www/vhosts/domain.tld/logs directory completely.