Bug 4729

Summary: logrotate fails to rotate in certain circumstance
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: chrismcc
Component: logrotateAssignee: Preston Brown <pbrown>
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Description chrismcc 1999-08-26 20:39:50 UTC 
with this test config:
rotate 10
errors root
size 100
compress
delaycompress
/path/file {
	}

if /path/file.1.gz exists /path/file will not be rotated

for example, /path/file is a web log.  After rotation
logresolve is run on /path/file.1 ,  the log is then
compressed leaving /path/file.1.gz .

possible fix suggestion, if /path/file.1.gz exists, move to
/path/file.2.gz then move /path/file to /path/file.1

probably the same on all arch
tested with 5.2, 6.0, and rawhide as of Aug 18,1999
Comment 1 Preston Brown 1999-08-27 03:45:59 UTC 
can you please turn on debugging (run logrotate with -d) and send me
the output?  I see that what you have discovered is valid, but I want
to pin down exactly what is happening in the code.
Comment 2 Preston Brown 1999-08-27 20:01:59 UTC 
user reports that they were incorrect.