logrotate: error: Compressing program wrote following message to stderr when compressing log

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • logrotate fails during log rotation with the following error messages:

    logrotate[XXXX]: error: Compressing program wrote following message to stderr when compressing log <logname>
logrotate[XXXX]: gzip: stdin: file size changed while zipping

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • logrotate

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