Rsyslog changes the process name and logrotate file in logrotate settings.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Customer copied the logroate setting file from RHEL7 to RHEL8, and then found that logrotate couldn't rotate log files of rsyslog service.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
  • logrotate
  • rsyslog

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