RE: (RHE4) Logrotate Not Restarting Syslog

Hi,

> I have 3 new systems running RHE4, all of which are
> experiencing the same
> issue. When the logs are rotated according to the script installed by
> default, syslogd is not be restarted. I have set SELinux to run in
> Permissive mode while I get the servers configured. Below is
> a copy of
> /etc/logrotate.d/syslog
>
> /var/log/messages /var/log/secure /var/log/maillog /var/log/spooler
> /var/log/boot.log /var/log/cron {
> sharedscripts
> postrotate
> /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2>
> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null
> || true
> endscript
> }
>
>
> If I run the postrotate command by itself, it works.
> However, it does not
> work when I force the logrotate, as seen below:
>
> [root@host log]# logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.d/syslog
> error: error running shared postrotate script for /var/log/messages
> /var/log/secure /var/log/maillog /var/log/spooler /var/log/boot.log
> /var/log/cron
>
>
> Does anyone know why this is not working?
Maybe, but I had something similar which was caused because the /tmp partition mounted with noexec.

Cheers,
André

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