What does mean the message "error: destination XXX already exists, renaming to XXX" in logrotate

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Issue

  • logrotate outputs the error message error: destination XXX already exists, renaming to XXX in verbose log

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • logrotate-3.8.6-19.el7.x86_64

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