Logrotate outputs a message “/var/lib/logrotate/logrotate.status: no such file or directory”
Issue
- Logrotate outputs
error: error creating state file /var/lib/logrotate/logrotate.status: no such file or directorywhen it runs in verbose mode(logrotate -v /etc/logrotate.conf).
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
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