Recent changes to Project LogRotateWin

Do I run LogRotateWin as a service or as a scheduled task?

Peter Lundin — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 08:54:15 -0000

How do you recoomend that I run it?

Puzzling error message from logrotate

Howard Spindel — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 07:17:20 -0000

Fpr anyone else reading this, I stumbled on the solution. The opening brace on a section must be at the end of the line instead of the next line.

I suggest that the parser be improved to handle this.

Puzzling error message from logrotate

Howard Spindel — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 07:08:19 -0000

Here is my config file:

compress
nosmtpssl
smtpfrom howard@sci1.com
smtpport 25
smtpserver mail.sci1.com
ifempty
missingok

e:\FastvueSyslog\dhcp2.sci1.com\dhcp2.sci1.com.log
{
rotate 5
weekly
mail howard@sci1.com
}

Pretty simple. When I run logrotate, I get an error:

logrotate: Unknown directive e:\FastvueSyslog\dhcp2.sci1.com\dhcp2.sci1.com.log

What am I doing wrong?

Discussion for Home page

Howard Spindel — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 07:24:50 -0000

For a test run, use logrotate -d <configfile></configfile>

That will give you debugging output about what logrotate would do if it ran. No files will be affected.

Discussion for Home page

Howard Spindel — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 03:15:50 -0000

Here is my config file:

compress
nosmtpssl
smtpfrom howard@sci1.com
smtpport 25
smtpserver mail.sci1.com
ifempty
missingok

e:\FastvueSyslog\dhcp2.sci1.com\dhcp2.sci1.com.log
{
rotate 5
weekly
mail howard@sci1.com
}

Pretty simple. When I run logrotate, I get an error:

logrotate: Unknown directive e:\FastvueSyslog\dhcp2.sci1.com\dhcp2.sci1.com.log

What am I doing wrong?

notifempty option is not working

Kirill — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 10:15:11 -0000

Hi,

The problem is still reproduced on the latest version.

My logrotate config:

compress

C:\logs\*.log {
  weekly
  rotate 4
  missingok
  dateext
  notifempty
}

Results:

& 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Ken Salter\LogRotate\logrotate.exe' -d -f -v C:\logrotate.d --state C:\logrotate.status

logrotate: Debug option set to true
logrotate: Verbose option set to true
logrotate: Force option set to true
logrotate: logrotate 0.0.0.18 - Copyright  (C) 2012-2016 Ken Salter
logrotate: Verbose option set to true
logrotate: C:\logrotate.d Adding to config files to process
logrotate: Setting alternate state file to C:\logrotate.status
logrotate: Parsing configuration file C:\logrotate.d\app.conf
logrotate: read line # Ansible managed
logrotate: Skipping comment
logrotate: read line
logrotate: read line compress
logrotate: Setting compress to True
logrotate: read line
logrotate: read line C:\logs\*.log {
logrotate: Processing new section
logrotate: Will process file path C:\logs\*.log
logrotate: read line weekly
logrotate: Setting weekly to True
logrotate: read line rotate 4
logrotate: Setting rotate to 4
logrotate: read line missingok
logrotate: Setting missingok to True
logrotate: read line dateext
logrotate: Setting dateext to True
logrotate: read line notifempty
logrotate: Unknown directive notifempty
logrotate: read line }

Unknown directive extension

V@no — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 16:02:48 -0000

confirmed with v0.0.0.18

Discussion for LogRotate page

V@no — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 15:50:28 -0000

We have to manually create scheduling tasks for this to work, correct?
Also, what is logrotate.exe.config file in the root of installation directory?

logrotate: Unable to parse test as an int32, skipping...

Rahul Dankhara — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 09:51:37 -0000

Tried same thing in cmd as admin and getting different error:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Ken Salter\LogRotate>.\logrotate.exe -f -d -v 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Ken Salter\LogRotate\Content\logrotate.conf'
logrotate: Force option set to true
logrotate: Debug option set to true
logrotate: Verbose option set to true
logrotate: logrotate 0.0.0.18 - Copyright (C) 2012-2016 Ken Salter
logrotate: Verbose option set to true
logrotate: 'C:\Program Adding to config files to process
logrotate: Files Adding to config files to process
logrotate: (x86)\Ken Adding to config files to process
logrotate: Salter\LogRotate\Content\logrotate.conf' Adding to config files to process
logrotate: Exception: The given path's format is not supported.
logrotate: StackTrace: at System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission.EmulateFileIOPermissionChecks(String fullPath)
at System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission.QuickDemand(FileIOPermissionAccess access, String fullPath, Boolean checkForDuplicates, Boolean needFullPath)
at System.IO.File.GetAttributes(String path)
at logrotate.Program.ProcessConfigPath(String m_path)
at logrotate.Program.Main(String[] args)

C:\Program Files (x86)\Ken Salter\LogRotate>

logrotate: Unable to parse test as an int32, skipping...

Rahul Dankhara — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 09:40:52 -0000

After changing path in ogrotate.conf as below, the int32 error went off but still it is not rotating test file.
...................
C:\logs path contains below files

test.log
testing.log
......................

C:\logs\test* {
daily
rotate 10
}

....................................................
PS C:\Program Files (x86)\Ken Salter\LogRotate> .\logrotate.exe -f -v -d 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Ken Salter\LogRotate\Content\logrotate.conf'
logrotate: Force option set to true
logrotate: logrotate 0.0.0.18 - Copyright (C) 2012-2016 Ken Salter
logrotate: Verbose option set to true
logrotate: Debug option set to true
logrotate: Verbose option set to true
logrotate: C:\Program Files (x86)\Ken Salter\LogRotate\Content\logrotate.conf Adding to config files to process
logrotate: Parsing configuration file C:\Program Files (x86)\Ken Salter\LogRotate\Content\logrotate.conf
logrotate: read line # sample logrotate configuration file
logrotate: Skipping comment
logrotate: read line
logrotate: read line # uncomment to enable compression of rotated log files
logrotate: Skipping comment
logrotate: read line # compress
logrotate: Skipping comment
logrotate: read line
logrotate: read line # this example will rotate the c:\test.log file daily and keep 5 rotations.
logrotate: Skipping comment
logrotate: read line # there is also an example prerotate script that will print the current time and the parameter passed to it (which is the path to the log file)
logrotate: Skipping comment
logrotate: read line C:\logs\test {
logrotate: Processing new section
logrotate: Will process file path C:\logs\test
logrotate: read line daily
logrotate: Setting daily to True
logrotate: read line rotate 10
logrotate: Setting rotate to 10
logrotate: read line }
logrotate: read line
logrotate: Processing C:\logs\test*
logrotate: Processing C:\logs\test.log.txt
logrotate: Force option is set, will rotate
logrotate: Processing C:\logs\testing.log.txt
logrotate: Force option is set, will rotate
logrotate: Rotating file C:\logs\test.log.txt
logrotate: Rotate will be simulated because Debug is true
logrotate: Renaming C:\logs\test.log.txt to C:\logs\test.log.txt.1
logrotate: Compressing rotated log file C:\logs\test.log.txt.1
logrotate: Rotating file C:\logs\testing.log.txt
logrotate: Rotate will be simulated because Debug is true
logrotate: Renaming C:\logs\testing.log.txt to C:\logs\testing.log.txt.1
logrotate: Compressing rotated log file C:\logs\testing.log.txt.1
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