Logrotate Not Working

[LloydD]

Hi everyone,
I'm running a VPS with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS with Plesk 9.5.4 and set the domains to rotate once a month but it never happened so now I have a 340mb access.log and 160MB access_ssl.log.
There's no logrotate file in /etc/cron.monthly just a .50plesk-monthly and .place-holder. There is a logrotate file in the cron-daily folder.
Is there a command I can run on a per domain basis?
Thanks in advance for any help
Kind regards

Lloyd

 

[Amin Taheri]

cat /etc/cron.daily/logrotate

#!/bin/sh

/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf
EXITVALUE=$?
if [ $EXITVALUE != 0 ]; then
/usr/bin/logger -t logrotate "ALERT exited abnormally with [$EXITVALUE]"
fi
exit 0

 

[LloydD]

Sorry for the delay,

/etc/cron.daily/logrotate

#!/bin/sh

test -x /usr/sbin/logrotate || exit 0
/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf

and

/etc/logrotate.conf

# see "man logrotate" for details
# rotate log files weekly
weekly

# keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs
rotate 4

# create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
create

# uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
#compress

# packages drop log rotation information into this directory
include /etc/logrotate.d

# no packages own wtmp, or btmp -- we'll rotate them here
/var/log/wtmp {
missingok
monthly
create 0664 root utmp
rotate 1
}

/var/log/btmp {
missingok
monthly
create 0664 root utmp
rotate 1
}

# system-specific logs may be configured here

There is no logrotate in /etc/cron.monthly.
Thanks in advance for your help
Kind regards

Lloyd

 

[Amin Taheri]

That all looks pretty normal - can you double check that you actually set the domains to use logrotate and its by date and not by size or number?

 

[LloydD]

The system has been running for about a year and a half, in that time I have tried monthly daily and by size, none work.
I just ran

logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.conf

Which rotated alot of logs, but didn't touch the domain logs.
Should Plesk have written something to the logrotate.conf?
Something like..

/var/www/vhosts/domain wildcard?/statistics/logs/* {
missingok
monthly
create 0664 root utmp
rotate 1
}

I don't know, I hope someone can shed some light on the subject.
Thanks for the help so far.
Kind regards

Lloyd

 

[LloydD]

Ok so I have found where Plesk stores the logrotate files for the domains..

/usr/local/psa/etc/logrotate.d

Should I just add the above path to the /etc/logrotate.conf?
Thanks for your patience

 

[Amin Taheri]

Plesk logrotate settings are stored here

/usr/local/psa/etc/logrotate.conf

it has a include line as its #1 line
include /usr/local/psa/etc/logrotate.d

inside that directory you will find the domains, and each domain will have its log files there

# cat domain.com
/var/www/vhosts/domain.com/statistics/logs/*.processed {
daily
rotate 3
compress
missingok
}
/var/www/vhosts/domain.com/statistics/logs/error_log {
daily
rotate 3
compress
missingok
copytruncate
}

 

[LloydD]

So I should run..

logrotate -f /usr/local/psa/etc/logrotate.conf

Simple as that?

 

[LloydD]

Well that nearly did the trick, to start with it only did the error log so I just copied that entry in /usr/local/psa/etc/logrotate.d/my-domain.com and corrected the access_log and access_ssl_log file paths.
Job done, except how do I get it to do it monthly automatically
Should I ammend the main /etc/logrotate.conf so there are 2 include entries..

include /etc/logrotate.d
include /usr/local/psa/etc/logrotate.conf

Or should I just add a cron job to run it.
Thanks for all your help on this matter, it's much appreciated

 

[Amin Taheri]

probably the cron, that way you have more control.