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<p class="MsoNormal">Every night, on a 5210r box, I get a cron email showing errors related to log rotation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is todays:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Thisdir: /home/.sites/site1 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Thisdir: /home/.sites/site1//var/logs <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Thisdir: /home/.sites/site1//var/logs/2023 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Thisdir: /home/.sites/site1//var/logs/2023/2 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Thisdir: /home/.sites/site1//var/logs/2023/2/23 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">DEBUG: Running: /usr/bin/goaccess /home/.sites/site1//var/logs/web.log --log-format='%h %^[%d:%t %^] \"%r\" %s %b \"%R\" \"%u\"' --date-format=%d/%b/%Y --time-format=%H:%M:%S --json-pretty-print -o /home/.sites/site1//var/logs/2023/2/23//web.json<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This repeats for every site on the server.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">At the end of that repeating section is:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">error: error setting owner of /home/.sites/site47/var/logs/web.log to uid 0 and gid 1009: Operation not permitted<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then finally, after it lists that it has found each site on the server and their paths, there is this:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">current time - stop time is 0<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">date_dir: 2023/2/23/ at /usr/local/sbin/split_logs line 126, <GEN0> line 276.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Test/setup /home/.sites/server perms 493<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Thisdir: /home/.sites/server <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Test/setup /home/.sites/server//logs perms 493<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Thisdir: /home/.sites/server//logs <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Test/setup /home/.sites/server//logs/2023 perms 493<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Thisdir: /home/.sites/server//logs/2023 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Test/setup /home/.sites/server//logs/2023/2 perms 493<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Thisdir: /home/.sites/server//logs/2023/2 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Test/setup /home/.sites/server//logs/2023/2/23 perms 493<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Thisdir: /home/.sites/server//logs/2023/2/23 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Clearing /home/.sites/server//logs/2023/2/23//net.cache<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Attempting to invoke /usr/bin/analogbx -C'DEFAULTLOGFORMAT COMBINED' -C'CACHEOUTFILE /home/.sites/server//logs/2023/2/23//net.cache' -<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Using regex: /Dontmatchanythingnovsites/<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">start time: Thu Feb 23 00:00:00 2023<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">stop time: Fri Feb 24 03:49:24 2023<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">about to process most recent log<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">DEBUG: Not running GoAccess because either /tmp/.logrotate_apache_access or /home/.sites/server//logs/2023/2/23/ do not exist!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am entirely unfamiliar with the log rotation process, can someone shed any light on what is going on?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Darren Wolfe<o:p></o:p></p>
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