[clue-admin] Logrotate is b0rked

[David Anselmi]

Jed S. Baer wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 12:52:15 -0700
> David Anselmi wrote:
> 
>>Are you seeing the syslogd restart entries in the logs when the 
>>logrotate cron runs?
> 
> Nope. 1 message, occurring twice in the avilable logs:
> 
> logrotate: ALERT exited abnormally with [1]

The lines for kill -HUP <PID of syslogd> will put this kind of line in:

syslogd 1.4.1#16: restart (remote reception)

If you don't see that it means the kill -HUP isn't running, which 
explains the problem.  Could be that logrotate is failing before the 
kill.  Did you run it by hand?  See:

http://info.ccone.at/INFO/Mail-Archives/redhat/Jul-2004/msg00457.html

Dave