logrotate.status.tmp: Permission denied

Asked Jul 01 '20 at 05:31

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I am trying to logrotate my log files. Here is my configuration file:

/home/deploy/apps/production_app/current/log/*.log {
    daily
    missingok
    rotate 52
    compress
    create 0644 deploy deploy
    delaycompress
    notifempty
    sharedscripts
    copytruncate
}

And this is result of

ll apps/production_app/current/log/

on my log files:

-rw-rw-r-- 1 deploy deploy        0 Jul  1 10:01 production.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 deploy deploy  1124555 Jul  1 10:01 production.log.1

And when I run this command

logrotate -v /etc/logrotate.d/production_app

I get following:

error: error creating output file /var/lib/logrotate.status.tmp: Permission denied

asked Jul 01 '20 at 05:31

Zia Qamar

under the context of which user do you run this command? – natxo asenjo Jul 01 '20 at 06:03
I run it under deploy user – Zia Qamar Jul 01 '20 at 06:04
2

`/var/lib` is only writable by root, run logrotate as root. – Ginnungagap Jul 01 '20 at 10:57

error: error creating output file /var/lib/logrotate.status.tmp: Permission denied

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