logrotate failing running postrotate script

Fireminds Ltd.

• July 17, 2017 15:30

Hi All, I recently just started getting these errors in an email from my server: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: exim: no process killed error: error running non-shared postrotate script for /var/log/exim_mainlog of '/var/log/exim_mainlog ' exim: no process killed error: error running non-shared postrotate script for /var/log/exim_paniclog of '/var/log/exim_paniclog ' exim: no process killed error: error running non-shared postrotate script for /var/log/exim_rejectlog of '/var/log/exim_rejectlog ' The logrotate conf file is all set to default at the moment. Never got these in the past, only recently. Tried running a yum update of logrotate but no updates available. Any ideas what could be the problem?

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  cPanelMichael

  • July 17, 2017 20:47

  Hello, Could you run the following commands and let us know the output?
  cat /etc/cron.daily/logrotate cat /etc/logrotate.conf
  Thank you.

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  Fireminds Ltd.

  • July 17, 2017 22:35

  Here is the output: [root@server user]# cat /etc/cron.daily/logrotate #!/bin/sh export TMPDIR=/var/spool/logrotate/tmp /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf EXITVALUE=$? if [ $EXITVALUE != 0 ]; then /usr/bin/logger -t logrotate "ALERT exited abnormally with [$EXITVALUE]" fi exit 0 [root@server user]# cat /etc/logrotate.conf # see "man logrotate" for details # rotate log files weekly weekly # keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs rotate 4 # create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones create # use date as a suffix of the rotated file dateext # uncomment this if you want your log files compressed #compress # RPM packages drop log rotation information into this directory include /etc/logrotate.d # no packages own wtmp and btmp -- we'll rotate them here /var/log/wtmp { monthly create 0664 root utmp minsize 1M rotate 1 } /var/log/btmp { missingok monthly create 0600 root utmp rotate 1 } # system-specific logs may be also be configured here.

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  cPanelMichael

  • July 18, 2017 16:22

  Hello, Do you have Exim disabled on this system in "WHM >> Service Manager"? If so, you can empty the /etc/logrotate.d/exim file to avoid those error messages with the following command:
  echo -n > /etc/logrotate.d/exim
  Then, if you decide to enable Exim again in the future, repopulate the file with the following commands:
  rm /etc/logrotate.d/exim /scripts/check_cpanel_rpms --fix
  Thank you.

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