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Newbie
8 November 2016, 13:04
Hello,
yesterday I'd make a fresh install on Debian 8 with Hiawatha. At night i got a Mail from cron with this
I'd search a solution for this problem and i've found a workaround.
When I fill this
in the file /etc/logrotate.d/hiawatha, then logrotate works correct without errormessage. But is this the right solution?
yesterday I'd make a fresh install on Debian 8 with Hiawatha. At night i got a Mail from cron with this
/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
error: hiawatha:9 unexpected log filename
error: found error in /var/log/hiawatha/access.log , skipping
error: hiawatha:9 unexpected log filename
error: found error in /var/log/hiawatha/access.log , skipping
I'd search a solution for this problem and i've found a workaround.
When I fill this
/var/log/hiawatha/*.log {
rotate 7
weekly
compress
copytruncate
missingok
notifempty
}
rotate 7
weekly
compress
copytruncate
missingok
notifempty
}
in the file /etc/logrotate.d/hiawatha, then logrotate works correct without errormessage. But is this the right solution?
Hugo Leisink
8 November 2016, 22:35
If it works and does what you want, then yes. 
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