rsyslog not write log after logrotate

Question

OS: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.4.0-101-generic x86_64)

rsyslog not writing logfile mail.log after logrotate, file mail.log is empty.

After restart rsyslog (service rsyslog restart) mail.log starting write.

config logrotate

/var/log/mail.info/var/log/mail.warn
/var/log/mail.err
/var/log/mail.log
{
rotate 48
weekly
missingok
notifempty
compress
delaycompress
sharedscripts
postrotate
    invoke-rc.d rsyslog rotate > /dev/null
endscript
}

I am changed postrotate in config file by this link https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1506, but it did not help.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 02 '22 at 07:49

0

The same question was asked and answered in Server Fault: Log files randomly stops writing to log files.

Apparently it's a known bug that can be avoided by changing all occurrences of invoke-rc.d rsyslog rotate to /usr/lib/rsyslog/rsyslog-rotate in /etc/logrotate.d/*.

answered Mar 02 '22 at 07:49

Christopher

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This does not really answer the question. If you have a different question, you can ask it by clicking Ask Question. To get notified when this question gets new answers, you can follow this question. Once you have enough reputation, you can also add a bounty to draw more attention to this question. - From Review – David Mar 02 '22 at 08:57
This answers exactly the same question. Even though the question over at Server Faults sounds different, the issue is rsyslog not writing logs after logs are rotated. – Christopher Mar 02 '22 at 12:02

rsyslog not write log after logrotate

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