Greetings luggites. I've been getting this error for several days now. Not much of a problem, but I would like to know why and how to fix it.

I'm getting a system email with the following text.

/etc/cron.daily/logrotate: error running shared postrotate script for /var/log/apache-ssl/*.log run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1

Two things of note. First the log.1 files seems to be the active log files. Secondly the current log files have an older date, the same date as when I think the logrotate started failing on the apache-ssl files. I have today manually "rotated" the log files. This I did by: creating a new directory for the old gzipped files, gzipping the very large log files, moving them to version *.log.2.gz, moving the "current" log files to *.log.1, and touching *.log files. Not much else to go on. I thought perhaps it might have something to do with the size of the log files, or the number of old log files. One would expect logrotate to handle both cases.

Brian Densmore

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