Daily Cron Error

cgimickalo

• December 03, 2013 04:24

I recently starting getting this notice from the daily crons and can't seem to find what is causing this. /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: error: syslog:1 duplicate log entry for /var/log/maillog error: found error in /var/log/cron /var/log/maillog /var/log/messages /var/log/secure /var/log/spooler , skipping
What is causing these errors? Thanks, Mike

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  cPanelMichael

  • December 03, 2013 15:28

  Hello :) Try running the logrotate script manually to see if the same error message is output: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate
  Thank you.

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  cgimickalo

  • December 03, 2013 15:36

  [quote="cPanelMichael, post: 1520282">Hello :) Try running the logrotate script manually to see if the same error message is output: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate
  Thank you.
  Yes the same exact error output running manually: [~]# /etc/cron.daily/logrotate error: syslog:1 duplicate log entry for /var/log/maillog error: found error in /var/log/cron /var/log/maillog /var/log/messages /var/log/secure /var/log/spooler , skipping
  Mike

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  cPanelMichael

  • December 03, 2013 16:58

  Please check the /etc/logrotate.conf file and look for any references to /var/log/maillog. Also, please check the following directory: /etc/logrotate.d
  Look for duplicate entries associated with /var/log/maillog. Thank you.

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  cgimickalo

  • December 03, 2013 17:14

  I found the duplicate entry in the /etc/logrotate.d folder in the exim cron file. Not sure how that all of sudden got there though. Removed the duplicate entry, ran the logrotate cron script, no errors now. Thank you for your help appreciate it. Mike

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  fatpanda

  • January 13, 2020 10:33

  Hi, I have the same issue. In my case I have to rotate weekly /var/log/maillog and can't be succeeded. the error message is "duplicate log entry for /var/log/maillog". I found the duplicate in syslog file but in my case I can't delete it. So how could you help!

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