logrotate removed from /etc/cron.daily

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I noticed that on some of our SLES 12 systems, logrotate is no more run daily, and the logfiles grow and grow :frowning:

Looking deeper into it, I found that, while previous versions (e.g. 3.8.7) of logrotate contained /etc/cron.daily/logrotate, more recent versions (e.g. 3.11.0) dropped this file, but bring /usr/lib/systemd/system/logrotate.service and /usr/lib/systemd/system/logrotate.timer with them.

This service is not enabled:

host:/etc/cron.daily # systemctl is-enabled logrotate static host:/etc/cron.daily # service logrotate status รขย—ย logrotate.service - Rotate log files Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/logrotate.service; static; vendor preset: disabled) Active: inactive (dead) Docs: man:logrotate(8) man:logrotate.conf(5) host:/etc/cron.daily #

Should we enable the service manually? Is this a bug of the update scripts?

Kind regard, Tom

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On 06/07/18 10:04, swadm wrote:
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I noticed that on some of our SLES 12 systems, logrotate is no more run
daily, and the logfiles grow and grow :frowning:

Looking deeper into it, I found that, while previous versions (e.g.
3.8.7) of logrotate contained /etc/cron.daily/logrotate, more recent
versions (e.g. 3.11.0) dropped this file, but bring
/usr/lib/systemd/system/logrotate.service and
/usr/lib/systemd/system/logrotate.timer with them.

This service is not enabled:

Code:

 host:/etc/cron.daily # systemctl is-enabled logrotate

static
host:/etc/cron.daily # service logrotate status
รขย—ย logrotate.service - Rotate log files
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/logrotate.service; static; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: inactive (dead)
Docs: man:logrotate(8)
man:logrotate.conf(5)
host:/etc/cron.daily #

Should we enable the service manually? Is this a bug of the update
scripts?[/color]

Was this server upgraded from a previous version of SLES12 to SLES12
SP3? Please see
https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-SLES/12-SP3/#fate-322037 .

HTH.

Simon
SUSE Knowledge Partner

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Simon,

thanks, that definitely helps. These systems have been taken up from SP1.
Would have been a sensible default to enable logrotate.timer automatically during such migrations.
Oddly there is a system, that also came from SP1 but has logrotate.timer enabled.

Kind Regards, Tom