Ubuntu
logrotate package

Initially missing /var/lib/logrotate/status file

Bug #781795 reported by Daniel Richard G. on 2011-05-12

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #785670: logrotate cronjob /etc/cron.daily/logrotate throws errors when it is executed for the first time because it expects status file. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	logrotate (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: logrotate

I received the following e-mail message "Anacron job 'cron.daily' on myhostname" after installing Natty:

    /etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
    head: cannot open `status' for reading: No such file or directory
    sed: can't read status: No such file or directory

This script updates a file /var/lib/logrotate/status, but does not gracefully handle the first-time-run scenario, when this file does not exist.

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Fridtjof Busse (fbusse-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2011-06-16:

I can confirm this problem.
This is especially annoying when you're deploying systems and every single one of the sends the same error-mail after the first logrotate run.
Should be an easy fix.