Should ensure that /etc/cron.hourly/logrotate exists
nicwaller opened this issue · comments
This cookbook allows the specification of hourly as an option, but it does not guarantee that an hourly cron entry exists.
$ ls -l /etc/cron.{hourly,daily}/logrotate
ls: cannot access /etc/cron.hourly/logrotate: No such file or directory
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 372 Jan 22 2014 /etc/cron.daily/logrotate
This issue is commonly asked about. The logrotate man page provides this guidance.
Log files are rotated every hour. Note that usually logrotate is configured to be run by cron daily. You have to change this configuration and run logrotate hourly to be able to really rotate logs hourly.
In my opinion, this cookbook should create /etc/cron.hourly/logrotate if the hourly option is used for any definitions of logrotate_app.
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It would be an excellent addition to this cookbook if the system ensured there was a /etc/cron. file that matches the shorted time used by the cookbook resources.
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