Re: newsyslog not rotating a log file

[Chuck Yerkes <chuck+obsd_(_at_)_2003_(_dot_)_snew_(_dot_)_com>]

Put the newsyslog.conf line alone in a file.
Lets call it: "/tmp/testnsl.conf"

Then run:
newsyslog -f /tmp/testnsl.conf -v -n

-n says "don't really do it"
-v says be verbose about it.

See what it says.

Quoting Jim Breton (jamesb-openbsd_(_at_)_alongtheway_(_dot_)_com):
> Hello, I'm not a newbie to OpenBSD.. been running it for a couple years
> actually.
> 
> But sometimes I feel like a newbie, and this is one of those times. ;)
> 
> I added a log file to be rotated into my newsyslog.conf:
> 
> /var/log/kern                           644  14   *    24    Z
> 
> In syslog.conf I have the following:
> 
> kern.debug                                              /var/log/kern
> 
> And the file is being written by syslog, no problem there.
> 
> 
> However, I can't seem to get newsyslog to rotate it -- unless I manually
> force it with -F:
> 
> # ls -lat kern* # (each of these is the result of a forced rotation)
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   60 Jan 17 05:27 kern
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  348 Jan 17 05:27 kern.0.gz
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  463 Jan 15 07:42 kern.1.gz
> 
> 
> I noticed that it was not being rotated by the hourly newsyslog job, so I
> started playing with the options in newsyslog.conf.  Watch what happens if
> I set the rotation time to different numbers of hours and then run
> 'newsyslog -n -v':
> 
> 24 hours:
> /var/log/kern <14Z>: age (hr): 22 [24] --> skipping
> 
> 23 hours:
> /var/log/kern <14Z>: age (hr): 22 [23] --> skipping
> 
> 22 hours:
> /var/log/kern <14Z>: age (hr): 22 [22] --> skipping
> 
> 21 hours:
> /var/log/kern <14Z>: age (hr): 22 [21] --> skipping
> 
> 
> Seems that no matter what value I use, it just will not rotate.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Thanks.