zimbra.log 0 bytes - stopped after logrotate.

[acesuares]

It seems that after logrotate, zimbra.log is not filled anymore (syslog stopped logging to zimbra.log).

-rw-r--r-- 1 zimbra zimbra 0 2010-10-22 06:25 zimbra.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 syslog adm 1017563 2010-10-22 06:24 zimbra.log.1.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 syslog adm 1049984 2010-10-21 06:25 zimbra.log.2.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 syslog adm 44032 2010-10-20 06:24 zimbra.log.3.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 zimbra zimbra 2641 2010-10-19 06:24 zimbra.log.4.gz


After restarting syslog, it works again
# /etc/init.d/rsyslog restart

Is this a bug and should I report it?

[acesuares]

In /opt/zimbra/conf/zmlogrotate, where zimbra.log and zimbra-stats.log are rotated, there is mention of syslogd but Ubuntu is using rsyslogd.

/var/log/zimbra.log {
daily
missingok
notifempty
create 0644 zimbra zimbra
postrotate
killall -HUP syslogd 2> /dev/null || true
su - zimbra -c "/opt/zimbra/bin/zmswatchctl restart" > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
endscript
compress
}
/var/log/zimbra-stats.log {
daily
missingok
notifempty
create 0644 zimbra zimbra
postrotate
killall -HUP syslogd 2> /dev/null || true
su - zimbra -c "/opt/zimbra/bin/zmlogswatchctl restart" > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
endscript
rotate 0
}

[gevezex]

Probably it is. Check also thread:

zimbra.log empty after rotate

[imx]

probably not the cleanest fix, but ive not had time to investigate further, but adding this to the following file sorted it for the meant time...

/etc/cron.daily/logrotate

/etc/init.d/rsyslog restart 2>&1