After changing logrotate configuration from "nocompress" to "compress", one of lotated files will disappear
Issue
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After changing logrotate configuration from "nocompress" to "compress", one of lotated files will disappear.
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A situation which lotates with nocompress
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jun 6 xx:xx /var/log/messages -rw------- 1 root root 14353 Jun 6 xx:xx /var/log/messages.1 -rw------- 1 root root 46 Jun 6 xx:xx /var/log/messages.2 -rw------- 1 root root 60 Jun 6 xx:xx /var/log/messages.3 -
Changing the logrotate configuration from "nocompress" to "compress", and executing logrotate
# logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.conf -
Then a current log is compressed but the latest lotated file (i.e. messages.1) disappears
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jun 6 xx:xx /var/log/messages -rw------- 1 root root 24 Jun 6 xx:xx /var/log/messages.1.gz <== size 14353 file disappeared -rw------- 1 root root 46 Jun 6 xx:xx /var/log/messages.2 -rw------- 1 root root 60 Jun 6 xx:xx /var/log/messages.3
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Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- logrotate
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