Daily Archives: 10/09/2019

Debian: logrotate won’t rotate logs with an “unknown group ‘syslog'” error

9 October 2019
 

 We have an AWS EC2 with Debian and logrotate. One day its root partition was exhausted and when I started investigating it – found, that we have a bunch of files like /var/log/syslog.N.gz. At the same time by default logrotate creates a config file to rotate syslog log files: [simterm] root@monitoring-dev:~# cat /etc/logrotate.d/syslog # Ansible… Read More »