remove the compress line and add the gzip command to the postrotate
sequence. What is happening is you are renaming the file out of under the
rotate script.
--
-dand
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Dan Deremiah Unix System Administrator
Wind River Systems, Alameda CA 510/749-2033 Desk
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On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Allen Crawford wrote:
> Ok, I've got the PIX logging working now I believe. I had to create a
> separate logrotate script and run it at a specific time (11:55pm) because I
> just realized that the daily cron job was running at 4:02 pm, which isn't
> when I want my Cisco logs to be rotated.
>
> Anyway, the only problem I'm having now is getting them to compress. Here's
> the logrotate script for the PIX that I'm using:
>
> /var/log/cisco_pix_515e/pix {
> daily
> rotate 4
> create
> compress
> postrotate
> /usr/bin/killall -HUP syslogd; mv
> /var/log/cisco_pix_515e/pix.1 /var/log/cisco_pix_515e/pix$(date +%Y%m%d)
> endscript
> }
>
>
> For testing I'm calling it with the following line:
>
> logrotate -f /etc/cisco_pix_515e_logrotate_script
>
> After running that, it rotates it correctly and starts logging to the new
> file. However, with the compress line left in the script, I get the
> following error:
>
> gzip: /var/log/cisco_pix_515e/pix.1: No such file or directory
> failed to compress log /var/log/cisco_pix_515e/pix.1
>
> Any tips on what I am doing wrong here?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Allen
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