Why the first rotation is skipped after updating to logrotate-3.8.6-12?

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • logrotate-3.8.6-12.el7.x86_64

Issue

  • Why the first rotation is skipped after updating to logrotate-3.8.6-12?

Resolution

  • This is a known bug. Please refer to Bug 1393247 . It hasn't been fixed yet.
  • Workaround
# cp -a /var/lib/logrotate.status.rpmsave /var/lib/logrotate/logrotate.status

Root Cause

  • %pre script in SPEC file copies logrotate.status file from old location to new location. But after that /var/lib/logrotate/logrotate.status
    is copied from RPM despite %config(noreplace), because in a previous version of the package didn't have that file.

Diagnostic Steps

  • /etc/cron.daily/logrotate provided by logrotate-3.8.6-12
#!/bin/sh

/usr/sbin/logrotate -s /var/lib/logrotate/logrotate.status /etc/logrotate.conf　　　<-----------
EXITVALUE=$?
if [ $EXITVALUE != 0 ]; then
    /usr/bin/logger -t logrotate "ALERT exited abnormally with [$EXITVALUE]"
fi
exit 0
  • /etc/cron.daily/logrotate provided by logrotate-3.8.6-7
#!/bin/sh

/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf　 <-----------
EXITVALUE=$?
if [ $EXITVALUE != 0 ]; then
    /usr/bin/logger -t logrotate "ALERT exited abnormally with [$EXITVALUE]"
fi
exit 0

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