Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hello

I have old logrotate compiled by UCLA AIX PDSLIB (closed already). This is the only compiled logrotate I was able to find. It was compiled for 5.1 and is crashing on my 5.2 and 5.3 with SIGSEV :

$ logrotate -d -v -s /tmp/logrotate.tst ./m
reading config file ./m
reading config info for /ah*/lg/*.log
reading config info for /ah*/lg/*.lg
Handling 2 logs
rotating pattern: /ah*/lg/*.log after 1 days (10 rotations)
empty log files are not rotated old logs are removed
rotating file /ahtest/lg/test.log
log does not need rotating
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Truss :

statx("/ahtest/lg/test.log", 0x2FF227E8, 76, 0) = 0
log does not need rotating
kwrite(2, " l o g d o e s n o t".., 27) = 27
kfcntl(2, F_GETFL, 0x2FF22FFC) = 67110914
Received signal #11, SIGSEGV default
And it also does not pick up all logs matching patter as described in conf file (maybe because it was SIGSEV'ed already) :

/ah*/lg/*.log
/ah*/lg/*.lg
Is there a workaround for the problem ? I also would appreciate if AIX would provide compiled logrotate in "AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications" - why logrotate is not yet there ?...

Maybe there are alternatives for AIX with all same abilities as original logrotate ?

Thank you for clarification.

With best regards
Martynas
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Doing a quick google search it looks like you are not the first person to run into this problem:
http://unix.ittoolbox.com/groups/technical-functional/ibm-aix-l/logrotate-for-aix-53l-1720384?cv=expanded#

syslogd has the capability to rotate logs: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.files/doc/aixfiles/syslog.conf.htm
However, I don't know if that satisfies your needs.

This thread has a script for rotating logs that someone ported to AIX: http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.unix.aix/2004-08/0646.html

I hope this helps.....
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Originally posted by: steevojb

Hi,

Is the source code not available for you to compile ? This would be the better option

IBM do not tend to provide updated apps to via the linux toolbox

HTH

Steve
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Looks like you might be able to get the code for version 3.5.9 of the package from here:
http://www-aix-old.gsi.de/~bio/DOCS/AIX/aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu/packages/logrotate.html

That site also (reportedly) lints to binaries for AIX 4.1, 4.2, and 5.1 on that site.
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hello

Thanks for advises. I downloaded sources and compiled. No SIGSEV any longer.

With best regards
Martynas
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