logrotate problems

Question

I have the following problem. When my logs are rotated something like that is procuded

-rw-r--r--    1 root admin 169K Sep 24 12:15 messages
-rw-r--r--    1 root admin    0 Sep 24 04:03 messages.1
-rw-r--r--    1 root admin    0 Sep 19 04:02 messages.11
-rw-r--r--    1 root admin   20 Aug 22 04:03 messages.1.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 root admin    0 Sep 23 04:02 messages.3
-rw-r--r--    1 root admin   20 Aug 21 04:02 messages.3.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 root admin    0 Sep 22 04:02 messages.5
-rw-r--r--    1 root admin   20 Aug 20 04:02 messages.5.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 root admin    0 Sep 21 04:02 messages.7
-rw-r--r--    1 root admin   20 Aug 19 04:03 messages.7.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 root admin    0 Sep 20 04:02 messages.9
-rw-r--r--    1 root admin   20 Aug 18 18:02 messages.9.gz

As you can see the even numbers are not compress, but the odd are. Any the most important is that there is not log kept !

My logrotate is the following ...

Blah Blah {
nocompress
sharedscripts
rotate 12
weekly
postrotate

/bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/rsyslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true

endscript
}

What could be wrong ?

Answer 1

At last the problem is solved. The problem was that some of the directories were links to other directories, thus they were rotated twice. !!!!!!! It had as a result the produced files to be null !

Answer 2

This looks like a redhat based distro. In which case you might want to check whether that particular pid file does actually exist and which daemon really is used to log into messages.

On fedora (as an example) the actual pid file is /var/run/syslogd.pid. This varies with distro (and the individual configuration of the server).