Logrotate is regularly rotating /var/log/messages but system is still generating logs in rotated log file.
Issue
- Logrotate is configured to keep 28 rotations and /var/log/messages is being rotated regularly but system is still using /var/log/messages.17 instead of /var/log/messages for new log entries.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- rsyslog-5.8.10-2.el6
- logrotate-3.7.8-15.el6
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