Logrotate rotated log files but ALERT message is output

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Issue

  • Log rotation by logrotate is called from cron.daily.
  • It seems that rotating log files succeeds but ALERT message is output as follows.
  logrotate: ALERT exited abnormally with [1]
  • Log files are on a nfs filesystem. What is the root cause of this issue?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 7
  • Package Version: logrotate-3.7.4-12

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