AIX Open Source

Originally posted by: sailaway

Currently using logrotate rpm 3.14.0-2 downloaded from AIX toolbox on AIX 7.2. 

I have a problem when trying to use user home directory expansion in the logrotate.conf. 

First I created a testlog in root home directory as "touch ~/testlog"

- If i use the tilde expansion with double quote in the logrotate.conf as follow:

"~/testlog" {}
   then the debug will output error:

considering log ~/testlog
error: stat of ~ failed: A file or directory in the path name does not exist.

- If I use tilde expansion without any double quote as follow:

~/testlog {}
  then the debug will output error:

error: /etc/logrotate.conf:51 lines must begin with a keyword or a filename (possibly in double quotes)

Is there any workaround to specify home directory as a variable in  the logrotate config file? 

Originally posted by: AyappanP

Man page of logrotate says this.,

          The last section uses tilde expansion to rotate log files in
          the home directory of the current user. This is only
          available, if your glob library supports tilde expansion.
          GNU glob does support this.

So it appears to me that AIX libc glob may not be supporting this.

We will check on this more. 

Originally posted by: sailaway

Thanks for looking into this. 

Originally posted by: AyappanP

Confirming that AIX (6.1, 7.1, 7.2) glob don't support tilde expansion. 

 Not sure whether any workaround is there for this , other than just hardcode the user home directory.

Originally posted by: sailaway

Thanks for confirming it. I was trying to keep my Ansible playbook compact but I just wrote another task to collect the user home directory from shell script as a workaround.