Logrotate works fine for sometime but don't rotate files after some days.

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Issue

  • Logrotate is not working for some custom files. It works fine for some days and then updating in the same file.
  • Below rules are configured for logrotation:
 /var/log/vpn/*.log{
   rotate 30
   daily
   dateext
 }

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Logrotate

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