Bug 4809

Summary:	logrotate aborts if it can't find a directory
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	signal11
Component:	logrotate	Assignee:	Preston Brown <pbrown>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.0
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Description signal11 1999-08-31 18:13:32 UTC

Observed a problem with logrotate aborting further
processing when it encounters a non-existant directory
listed in /etc/logrotate.conf.  In my case, I had
reconfigured samba to log information somewhere other than
/var/log/samba, and when logrotate read the samba config
file under /etc/logrotate.d, it borked.  The result is that
any logfiles that would normally be processed after samba
will never be rotated.

Comment 1 Preston Brown 1999-09-24 18:22:59 UTC

you should rectify this through the use of the "missingok" flag for
that particular logrotate component.  Otherwise it will be considered
a fatal error.