After changing logrotate configuration from "nocompress" to "compress", one of lotated files will disappear

Issue

• After changing logrotate configuration from "nocompress" to "compress", one of lotated files will disappear.

  1. A situation which lotates with nocompress

     -rw------- 1 root root     0 Jun  6 xx:xx /var/log/messages
     -rw------- 1 root root 14353 Jun  6 xx:xx /var/log/messages.1
     -rw------- 1 root root    46 Jun  6 xx:xx /var/log/messages.2
     -rw------- 1 root root    60 Jun  6 xx:xx /var/log/messages.3
     

  2. Changing the logrotate configuration from "nocompress" to "compress", and executing logrotate

     # logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.conf
     

  3. Then a current log is compressed but the latest lotated file (i.e. messages.1) disappears

     -rw------- 1 root root  0 Jun  6 xx:xx /var/log/messages
     -rw------- 1 root root 24 Jun  6 xx:xx /var/log/messages.1.gz  <== size 14353 file disappeared
     -rw------- 1 root root 46 Jun  6 xx:xx /var/log/messages.2
     -rw------- 1 root root 60 Jun  6 xx:xx /var/log/messages.3