logrotate

[mcfiredrill]

I just wanted to mention I had a few issues with the logrotate config out of the box.
I noticed my logs wern't being rotated so I ran logrotate -d -f on the config file.
First I got an error about the ownership being wrong.

deploy@myhost://var/www/my_app/shared/config$ sudo logrotate -d -f /etc/logrotate.d/my_app_production
Ignoring /etc/logrotate.d/my_app_production because the file owner is wrong (should be root).

Handling 0 logs

So I fixed that, then get errors that the parent directory is also incorrect.

deploy@myhost://var/www/my_app/shared/config$ sudo chown root:root log_rotation


deploy@myhost://var/www/my_app/shared/config$ sudo logrotate -d -f /etc/logrotate.d/my_app_production
reading config file /etc/logrotate.d/my_app_production
error: /etc/logrotate.d/my_app_production:9 unknown option 'endscript' -- ignoring line

Handling 1 logs

rotating pattern: /var/www/my_app/shared/log/*.log  forced from command line (52 rotations)
empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /var/www/my_app/shared/log/cron.log
error: skipping "/var/www/my_app/shared/log/cron.log" 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.
considering log /var/www/my_app/shared/log/ember-frontend.production.log
error: skipping "/var/www/my_app/shared/log/ember-frontend.production.log" because parent directory has insecure permissions (It's world writable or writa
ble by group which is not "root") Set "su" directive in config file to tell logrotate which user/group should be used for rotation.
considering log /var/www/my_app/shared/log/production.log
error: skipping "/var/www/my_app/shared/log/production.log" because parent directory has insecure permissions (It's world writable or writable by group wh
ich is not "root") Set "su" directive in config file to tell logrotate which user/group should be used for rotation.
considering log /var/www/my_app/shared/log/sidekiq.log
error: skipping "/var/www/my_app/shared/log/sidekiq.log" 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.
considering log /var/www/my_app/shared/log/unicorn.log
error: skipping "/var/www/my_app/shared/log/unicorn.log" 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.

I gave the su option a shot, and my logs are rotated now.

su deploy deploy 

Not sure what a fix should look like, either set the owner to root in setup_config or somehow set the su option globally.