Puppetmaster Logrotate isn't working

[willi....@home24.de]

Hello,

we have an issue that the Puppetmaster logrotate isn't working.

We are using the following default Logrotate:

/var/log/puppet/*log {
  missingok
  sharedscripts
  create 0644 puppet puppet
  compress
  rotate 4

  postrotate
    pkill -USR2 -u puppet -f 'puppet master' || true
    [ -e /etc/init.d/puppet ] && /etc/init.d/puppet reload > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
  endscript
}

After running the logrotate script we have this message in syslog:

Apr 29 09:36:12 puppet1 puppet-master[3109]: Caught USR2; calling reopen_logs
Apr 29 09:36:12 puppet1 puppet-master[3109]: Reopening log files

The problem is that the logrotate does not create a new masterhttp.log. We tried it with Puppet-3.4.2, 3.4.3 and 3.5.1.

Regards - Willi

[Felix Frank]

On 04/29/2014 06:13 PM, willi....@home24.de wrote:
> The problem is that the logrotate does not create a new masterhttp.log. We tried it with Puppet-3.4.2, 3.4.3 and 3.5.1.

So, that is a logrotate problem then? Maybe ask those guys?

masterhttp.log...are you running webrick?

Thanks,
Felix

[Joachim Schrod]

I can add that it doesn't work in 3.3.1 on openSUSE 12.x either.
Signal USR2 doesn't work there, log files are not reopened. (I
can't upgrade to 3.5 yet, am waiting for that to check if the
problem is still there.)

I resorted to restart the puppet service, instead of reloading it.

Cheers,
Joachim

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[Chris]

I can't help with the puppet side of things, but try 'copytruncate' in
your logrotate conf instead, and remove the postrotate section.

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