0005668: logrotate is not being started

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update
0005668	Kali Linux	Kali Package Bug	public	2019-09-02 11:23	2019-09-05 14:19

Reporter	hynek.petrak	Assigned To	rhertzog
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	resolved	Resolution	fixed
Product Version	2019.2
Fixed in Version	2019.4

Summary	0005668: logrotate is not being started
Description	It seems since June 2018 the logrotate is not being run on my Kali Rolling. cat /etc/cron.daily/logrotate skip in favour of systemd timer if [ -d /run/systemd/system ]; then exit 0 fi .... However there are no systemd timers for logrotate: systemctl list-timers --all NEXT LEFT LAST PASSED UNIT ACTIVATES Mon 2019-09-02 15:20:16 CEST 1h 57min left Sun 2019-09-01 15:20:15 CEST 22h ago systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service 1 timers listed.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2019-09-02 11:23	hynek.petrak	New Issue
2019-09-05 14:19	rhertzog	Assigned To	=> rhertzog
2019-09-05 14:19	rhertzog	Status	new => resolved
2019-09-05 14:19	rhertzog	Resolution	open => fixed
2019-09-05 14:19	rhertzog	Fixed in Version	=> 2019.4
2019-09-05 14:19	rhertzog	Note Added: 0011052
2019-09-05 14:19	rhertzog	Relationship added	related to 0005160

skip in favour of systemd timer

rhertzog 2019-09-05 14:19 administrator ~0011052	This is fixed for new installations with base-files 2019.4.0. Otherwise, you have to run "systemctl enable logrotate.timer" to make sure that logrotate will run.