logrotate unable to open <file> for compression

From: Alan Baker (alanwbaker_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/27/04 

Date: 26 Oct 2004 20:14:45 -0700

I have logrotate-3.7-31 on my Suse 9.1 system. It wasn't rotating
logs so I turned on its debug and found that logrotate is issuing
messages like...

   renaming /var/log/setiathome.log to /var/log/setiathome.log.1
   creating new log mode = 0644 uid = 0 gid = 0
   running postrotate script
   error: unable to open /var/log/setiathome.log.1 for compression

for each file (even when compression is not turned on). Any clues
will be appreciated.

  Alan in San Jose

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