Logrotate command not found

General Discussion
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Hello, I’m struggling with logrotate.

I’ve set Log System : [Full], but when i try and use the logrorate command i get ‘-bash: logrotate: command not found’

I’ve set my logrotate.conf as

daily
rotate 4
create
compress
include /etc/logrotate.d

I also have various other confs in logrotate.d

I’m sure I’m missing something obvious…

2

What is the output of sudo systemctl status logrotate ?

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RaspberryPi sudo systemctl status logrotate.service
● logrotate.service - Rotate log files
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/logrotate.service; static)
     Active: inactive (dead) since Thu 2023-04-27 00:00:04 BST; 7h ago
TriggeredBy: ● logrotate.timer
       Docs: man:logrotate(8)
             man:logrotate.conf(5)
   Main PID: 11361 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
        CPU: 758ms

Warning: journal has been rotated since unit was started, output may be incomplete.
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Active: inactive (dead) since Thu 2023-04-27 00:00:04 BST; 7h ago
Looks like it is working.
What command did you use?

5

logrotate --force /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog

and variants. i’ve modified some of the conf files and logs are now rotating ok, but not sure why the command itself isn’t working.

6

Did you try to run the command as root or as another user with sudo?
Where is logrotate? which logrotate

7

just tested on my Orange Pi 5 and the command logrotate is available ootb after switching the log mode to full.

root@DietPiOPi5:~# logrotate --version
logrotate 3.18.0

    Default mail command:       /usr/bin/mail
    Default compress command:   /bin/gzip
    Default uncompress command: /bin/gunzip
    Default compress extension: .gz
    Default state file path:    /var/lib/logrotate/status
    ACL support:                yes
    SELinux support:            yes
root@DietPiOPi5:~#

But yeah, it requires root permission as executable is located at /usr/sbin/logrotate

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RaspberryPi which logrotate
RaspberryPi logrotate --version
bash: logrotate: command not found
RaspberryPi

in /usr/sbin i have:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root      83420 Jan 30  2022 logrotate
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which user you are using to login? Do you use root?

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just normal user. this really helped tho as using sudo all is fine :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

RaspberryPi sudo which logrotate
/usr/sbin/logrotate
RaspberryPi sudo logrotate
logrotate 3.18.0 - Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Red Hat, Inc.
This may be freely redistributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License        

Usage: logrotate [-dfv?] [-d|--debug] [-f|--force] [-m|--mail=command]
        [-s|--state=statefile] [--skip-state-lock] [-v|--verbose] [-l|--log=logfile]      
        [--version] [-?|--help] [--usage] [OPTION...] <configfile>

My bad, and thanks all for putting up with me.