logrotate problem

[Frank Wiles]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 15:04:18 -0600
"Brian Densmore" <DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com> wrote:

> 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.

  What is in /etc/logrotate.d/apache or the related logrotate config
  file? 

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