Why force logrotation isn't rotating logs?

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Issue

  • Rotating logs forcefully (logrotate -df /etc/logrotate.conf) doesn't rotate logs.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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