I am having issues with logrotate and would like some help. I have exim installed on a system and I am trying to get the logs to rotate at 2359. I have a cron job setup to rotate the log but it appears that it will also run at random times. I do not have my config in /etc/logrotate.d/ directory.
59 23 * * * /usr/sbin/logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.exim/exim > /dev/null
Here is the exim rotate file :
/var/log/exim/main.log /var/log/exim/panic.log /var/log/exim/reject.log {
su exim exim
compress
compresscmd /usr/bin/gzip
uncompresscmd /usr/bin/gunzip
dateext
dateformat -%Y-%m-%d
rotate 30
missingok
}
Here you can see that they are rotating at random times :
-rw-r----- 1 exim exim 269 Jul 10 23:10 panic.log-2023-07-10.gz
-rw-r----- 1 exim exim 77696 Jul 10 23:56 reject.log-2023-07-10.gz
-rw-r----- 1 exim exim 115169 Jul 10 23:56 main.log-2023-07-10.gz
Any thoughts on why they rotate at random times? On other linux systems this works fine.