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I've read lots of thread here about logrotate and have tried quite a few different of the suggestions and I can't get the access log to rotate. The /var/log/hiawatha files are rotating fine, and permissions are the same as those, but they don't get touched for some reason. I can't find any errors in syslog or messages about it.

$ l /var/log/hiawatha/
total 3384
-rw-r----- 1 www-data www-data  442604 Oct 31 06:03 access.log
-rw-r----- 1 www-data www-data  478300 Oct 28 06:12 access.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 www-data www-data    8295 Aug 26 05:24 access.log.10.gz
-rw-r----- 1 www-data www-data   12156 Aug 21 06:14 access.log.11.gz

$ l /var/www/my_site/log/
total 316216
-rw-r----- 1 www-data www-data 309498755 Oct 31 07:26 access.log
-rw-r----- 1 www-data www-data  14218318 Oct 31 05:00 error.log

$ more /etc/logrotate.d/hiawatha 
/var/log/hiawatha/access.log {
	weekly
	compress
	delaycompress
	rotate 52
	missingok
	create 640 www-data www-data
	sharedscripts
	postrotate
		/usr/bin/killall -HUP hiawatha
	endscript
}

/var/www/my_site/log/*.log {
	weekly
	compress
	delaycompress
	rotate 52
	missingok
	create 640 www-data www-data
	sharedscripts
	postrotate
		/usr/bin/killall -HUP hiawatha
	endscript
}

I don't know. This ain't no Hiawatha issue, but a logrotate issue. Is *.log allowed in the logrotate config? Is Hiawatha's logrotate functionality an option for you?

The result is the same with or without the wildcard. I'll post on linuxquestions or something and see if anyone has any suggestions. If that fails, I'll check into the Hiawatha log rotate feature.

For anyone else who has this issue, I ran the following:

sudo /usr/sbin/logrotate -vf /etc/logrotate.conf

...and the log files did rotate. Here's a post about it on Server Fault:

https://serverfault.com/questions/938098/why-isnt-logrotate-working-on-particular-log-files-permissions-and-config-the