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#1 2024-10-02 16:43:30
- Mike-thinky
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- Registered: 2021-10-28
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Daedalus 5.01 desktop, Runit version, logrotate error spotted
Hi, a recent install on a laptop I used the 5.01 Daedalus Am64, desktop iso.
I had a few niggles I had to track down and on the way I noticed some significant logrotate issues.
ls -la /var/log
total 16428
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Oct 1 10:19 .
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Sep 27 18:09 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 1 09:56 account
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 1 10:19 alternatives.log ****
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 132906 Sep 29 18:32 alternatives.log.1 ****
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 14 2023 apparmor
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 1 10:19 apt
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 Oct 1 10:19 auth.log ****
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 167590 Oct 2 01:25 auth.log.1 ****
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 309762 Oct 1 09:49 auth.log.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 5497 Oct 1 09:50 boot
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 5657 Sep 29 12:18 boot.0
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 1221 Sep 27 19:35 boot.1.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 1121 Sep 27 13:30 boot.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 136 Sep 27 12:53 boot.3.gz
-rw-rw---- 1 root utmp 0 Oct 1 10:19 btmp
-rw-rw---- 1 root utmp 0 Sep 27 12:53 btmp.1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 29 12:28 chkrootkit
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 Oct 1 10:19 cron.log ****
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 7265 Oct 2 01:25 cron.log.1 ****
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 8976 Oct 1 09:45 cron.log.2.gz
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 1 10:19 cups
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 78491 Oct 1 09:50 dmesg
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 77424 Sep 29 12:18 dmesg.0
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 20165 Sep 27 19:35 dmesg.1.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 18823 Sep 27 13:30 dmesg.2.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 1 10:19 dpkg.log ****
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3188602 Oct 1 03:24 dpkg.log.1 ****
drwxr-s--- 2 Debian-exim adm 4096 Oct 1 10:19 exim4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 27 12:53 faillog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13581 Sep 29 15:23 fontconfig.log
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 27 12:53 fsck
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 27 13:29 installer
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 Oct 1 10:19 kern.log ****
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 294704 Oct 2 01:18 kern.log.1 ****
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 200714 Oct 1 09:49 kern.log.2.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 292292 Oct 1 09:51 lastlog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 108254 Sep 27 13:52 popularity-contest
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 27 13:52 popularity-contest.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29035 Sep 27 13:52 popularity-contest.gpg
drwxrwxr-t 2 root postgres 4096 Sep 28 22:47 postgresql
drwxr-x--- 2 puppet puppet 4096 Feb 10 2023 puppet
drwxr-x--- 2 puppet puppet 4096 May 7 2023 puppetserver
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Sep 28 14:49 runit
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 123 Oct 1 09:51 slim.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 75 Sep 29 12:31 slim.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 Oct 1 10:19 syslog ****
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 1931572 Oct 2 01:25 syslog.1 ****
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 186794 Oct 1 09:49 syslog.2.gz
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 4 2022 sysstat
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 Oct 1 10:19 user.log ****
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 1178 Oct 2 00:56 user.log.1 ****
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 727 Oct 1 07:59 user.log.2.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 635520 Oct 2 01:25 wtmp
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 9141120 Oct 1 10:19 wtmp.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43922 Oct 2 00:56 Xorg.0.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 42509 Oct 1 09:49 Xorg.0.log.oldI have added some asterix to highlight that there were many pairs of logs where the log file proper stayed at zero, and the *.1 log is the one that keeps growing.
I used this next webpage to see what might be happening:
https://serverfault.com/questions/82372 … rrect-file
So then I tried to force an update
Usage: logrotate [-dfv?] [-d|--debug] [-f|--force] [-m|--mail=command] [-s|--state=statefile] [-v|--verbose] [-l|--log=logfile] [--version] [-?|--help] [--usage] [OPTION...] < configfile >
sudo logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.confThis did not work because the proper file of each set was still blank...
This next page gave me some more to go on.
sudo logrotate --force -d /etc/logrotate.conf > ~/Documents/logrotateForce.txt
warning: logrotate in debug mode does nothing except printing debug messages! Consider using verbose mode (-v) instead if this is not what you want.
reading config file /etc/logrotate.conf
including /etc/logrotate.d
reading config file alternatives
reading config file apt
reading config file aptitude
reading config file btmp
reading config file cups-daemon
reading config file dpkg
reading config file dracut-core
reading config file exim4-base
reading config file exim4-paniclog
reading config file postgresql-common
reading config file ppp
reading config file rkhunter
reading config file rsyslog
reading config file sane-utils
reading config file slim
reading config file wtmp
Reading state from file: /var/lib/logrotate/status
Allocating hash table for state file, size 64 entries
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Handling 17 logs
rotating pattern: /var/log/alternatives.log forced from command line (12 rotations)
empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /var/log/alternatives.log
Now: 2024-10-02 02:00
Last rotated at 2024-10-01 10:19
log does not need rotating (log is empty)
rotating pattern: /var/log/apt/term.log forced from command line (12 rotations)
empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /var/log/apt/term.log
Now: 2024-10-02 02:00
Last rotated at 2024-10-01 10:19
log does not need rotating (log is empty)
rotating pattern: /var/log/apt/history.log forced from command line (12 rotations)
empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /var/log/apt/history.log
Now: 2024-10-02 02:00
Last rotated at 2024-10-01 10:19
log does not need rotating (log is empty)
rotating pattern: /var/log/aptitude forced from command line (6 rotations)
empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /var/log/aptitude
log /var/log/aptitude does not exist -- skipping
rotating pattern: /var/log/btmp forced from command line (1 rotations)
empty log files are rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /var/log/btmp
Now: 2024-10-02 02:00
Last rotated at 2024-10-02 01:46
log needs rotating
rotating log /var/log/btmp, log->rotateCount is 1
dateext suffix '-20241002'
glob pattern '-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]'
renaming /var/log/btmp.1 to /var/log/btmp.2 (rotatecount 1, logstart 1, i 1),
log /var/log/btmp.2 doesn't exist -- won't try to dispose of it
renaming /var/log/btmp to /var/log/btmp.1
creating new /var/log/btmp mode = 0660 uid = 0 gid = 43
rotating pattern: /var/log/cups/*log forced from command line (7 rotations)
empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /var/log/cups/access_log
Now: 2024-10-02 02:00
Last rotated at 2024-10-01 10:19
log does not need rotating (log is empty)
considering log /var/log/cups/error_log
Now: 2024-10-02 02:00
Last rotated at 2024-10-01 10:19
log does not need rotating (log is empty)
not running postrotate script, since no logs were rotated
rotating pattern: /var/log/dpkg.log forced from command line (12 rotations)
empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /var/log/dpkg.log
Now: 2024-10-02 02:00
Last rotated at 2024-10-01 10:19
log does not need rotating (log is empty)
rotating pattern: /var/log/dracut.log forced from command line (12 rotations)
empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /var/log/dracut.log
log /var/log/dracut.log does not exist -- skipping
rotating pattern: /var/log/exim4/mainlog /var/log/exim4/rejectlog forced from command line (10 rotations)
empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /var/log/exim4/mainlog
log /var/log/exim4/mainlog does not exist -- skipping
considering log /var/log/exim4/rejectlog
log /var/log/exim4/rejectlog does not exist -- skipping
rotating pattern: /var/log/exim4/paniclog forced from command line (10 rotations)
empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /var/log/exim4/paniclog
log /var/log/exim4/paniclog does not exist -- skipping
rotating pattern: /var/log/postgresql/*.log forced from command line (10 rotations)
empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-15-main.log
Now: 2024-10-02 02:00
Last rotated at 2024-10-02 01:46
log does not need rotating (log is empty)
rotating pattern: /var/log/ppp-connect-errors forced from command line (4 rotations)
empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /var/log/ppp-connect-errors
log /var/log/ppp-connect-errors does not exist -- skipping
rotating pattern: /var/log/rkhunter.log forced from command line (4 rotations)
empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /var/log/rkhunter.log
log /var/log/rkhunter.log does not exist -- skipping
rotating pattern: /var/log/syslog
/var/log/mail.log
/var/log/kern.log
/var/log/auth.log
/var/log/user.log
/var/log/cron.log
forced from command line (60 rotations)
empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /var/log/syslog
Now: 2024-10-02 02:00
Last rotated at 2024-10-01 10:19
log does not need rotating (log is empty)
considering log /var/log/mail.log
log /var/log/mail.log does not exist -- skipping
considering log /var/log/kern.log
Now: 2024-10-02 02:00
Last rotated at 2024-10-01 10:19
log does not need rotating (log is empty)
considering log /var/log/auth.log
Now: 2024-10-02 02:00
Last rotated at 2024-10-01 10:19
log does not need rotating (log is empty)
considering log /var/log/user.log
Now: 2024-10-02 02:00
Last rotated at 2024-10-01 10:19
log does not need rotating (log is empty)
considering log /var/log/cron.log
Now: 2024-10-02 02:00
Last rotated at 2024-10-01 10:19
log does not need rotating (log is empty)
not running postrotate script, since no logs were rotated
rotating pattern: /var/log/saned.log forced from command line (7 rotations)
empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /var/log/saned.log
log /var/log/saned.log does not exist -- skipping
rotating pattern: /var/log/slim.log forced from command line (4 rotations)
empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /var/log/slim.log
Now: 2024-10-02 02:00
Last rotated at 2024-10-02 01:46
log does not need rotating (log is empty)
rotating pattern: /var/log/wtmp forced from command line (1 rotations)
empty log files are rotated, only log files >= 1048576 bytes are rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /var/log/wtmp
Now: 2024-10-02 02:00
Last rotated at 2024-10-02 01:46
log needs rotating
rotating log /var/log/wtmp, log->rotateCount is 1
dateext suffix '-20241002'
glob pattern '-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]'
renaming /var/log/wtmp.1 to /var/log/wtmp.2 (rotatecount 1, logstart 1, i 1),
log /var/log/wtmp.2 doesn't exist -- won't try to dispose of it
renaming /var/log/wtmp to /var/log/wtmp.1
creating new /var/log/wtmp mode = 0664 uid = 0 gid = 43So now I had to add a postcondition halt and restart of syslog into the config files, on a temporary basis I stopped the option to do nothing if the log was empty. I think that last bit is only needed on a temporary basis until the postcondition operation is added.
Once I had done that the log files started behaving correctly
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#2 2024-10-06 17:54:25
- Lorenzo
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- Registered: 2020-03-03
- Posts: 45
Re: Daedalus 5.01 desktop, Runit version, logrotate error spotted
Hi!
do you have rsyslog and anacron or cron installed in your runit system?
I believe this is the result of
(some cronjobs are skipped due to invoke-rc.d actions not effective on some runscripts)
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … ug=1071395
and
(rsyslogd maintainer sabotaging alternative inits, affecting runit-services)
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … ug=1079268
fix will be available in next stable release (already have commits in git, still need to do some testing though)
Apologies for the inconvenient, I didn't catch this before current stable was released 
Lorenzo
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#3 2024-10-07 08:31:01
- Mike-thinky
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- Registered: 2021-10-28
- Posts: 73
Re: Daedalus 5.01 desktop, Runit version, logrotate error spotted
Hi Lorenzo,
I have rsyslog and cron definitely installed on that laptop.
good to know the fix is on its way, I am not sure if the postcondition I used is correct or in the correct file(s).
Mike
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