Ubuntu
logrotate package

  1. Bug #1959439
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 1959439

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Nigel Winterbottom (8-nigel) wrote :

root@nigel-Latitude-E6420:~# logrotate /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog --debug
WARNING: logrotate in debug mode does nothing except ...
...
considering log /var/log/syslog
error: skipping "/var/log/syslog" because parent directory has insecure permissions (It's world writable or writable by group which is not "root") Set "su" directive in config file to tell logrotate which user/group should be used for rotation.