logrotate question

[Zbigniew Szalbot]

Answering myself...

Zbigniew Szalbot:
> Dear all,
> 
> I am trying to use logrotate from ports and I am getting the following 
> error. Can anyone offer any insight?
> 
> /usr/local/sbin/logrotate -d /usr/local/etc/logrotate.conf
> reading config file /usr/local/etc/logrotate.conf
> reading config info for /var/log/httpd-error.log
> error: /usr/local/etc/logrotate.conf:11 bad olddir path "/var/log/tmp/"
> error: found error in /var/log/httpd-error.log  , skipping
> error: /usr/local/etc/logrotate.conf:11 } expected
> removing last 1 log configs

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports-bugs/2008-August/147600.html
So it seems there is a bug and it has not yet been solved?

> 
> The (simple) content of logrotate.conf is below:
> 
> # rotate apache logs
> "/var/log/httpd-error.log"      {
>         rotate 5
>         monthly
>         compress
>         delaycompress
>         create
>         size=70k
>         missingok
>         sharedscripts
>         olddir="/var/log/tmp/"
>         postrotate
>                 /sbin/killall -HUP httpd
>         endscript
>         }
> 
> I tried olddir argument with and without =, with and without "", with 
> and without a trailing slash and still getting this error.
> 
> I am also not sure why it would expect } in line 11?
> 
> I have read the man but it does not answer my questions or at least I do 
> not see the answers.
> 
> Many thanks for your advice!
> 

-- 
Zbigniew Szalbot
www.LCWords.com
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