[clug] Debian Woody log rotation error

[Andrew Pollock]

On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 06:46:07AM +1000, Ian Matters wrote:
> I have been receiving he following error for the past couple of  
> mornings:
> 
>   /etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
>   error running shared postrotate script for /var/log/apache/*.log
>   run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1
> 
> Can anybody give me any clues about what I should do the correct the  
> problem please?  The files in /var/log/apache look OK to me but maybe  
> the problem is with the scripts themselves.
> 

Well assuming woody's /etc/logrotate.d/apache has the same postrotate script
as sarge's, whichever of "invoke-rc.d apache reload" and 
"/etc/init.d/apache reload" is being run is exiting with the return code of
1.

Try running the above by hand and see if spits out any errors.

regards

Andrew