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Why logrotate silently does nothing and how to actually debug it

A config that doesn't error is not a config that works. logrotate misconfigurations don't fail loudly. They fail silently. You only find out when /var/log is 100% full and something crashed.

  • Logrotate misconfigurations often go unnoticed, silently failing
  • Copytruncate directive can cause dropped log entries on busy servers
  • Use postrotate approach and logrotate -d for debugging

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