error: error creating unique temp file: Permission denied

Question

while executing logrotate script manually I am receiving an error as follows. $ logrotate -vf /apps/web/scripts/Logroate-web.conf

truncating /apps/oracle/admin/mserver/adf12dev/servers/adf_1/logs/udara_1.out set default create context error: error creating unique temp file: Permission denied

Please let me know why is that and how to eliminate . Please note I am running this script using non root. user. thanks

Does your non-root user have permissions to write to that directory? — chicks, Jun 06 '17 at 12:45

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 02 '17 at 16:54

I was receiving the same error running as non-root user; though this was not preventing logrotate from rotating my app logs. In my case, I was attempting to write status to /dev/null:

/usr/sbin/logrotate -v -s /dev/null /path/to/logrotate.conf

Removing the -s option (writes to default status file, i.e. /var/lib/logrotate.status) resulted in the same error message. Updating to a new path removed the error message:

/usr/sbin/logrotate -v -s /path/to/logrotate.status /path/to/logrotate.conf

Hope this helps.

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 16 '18 at 15:03

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logrotate -v -s  /rlsothrbackup/rlsspool/MERGEDSPL/log.status  --force /rlsothrbackup/rlsspool/MERGEDSPL/logrotate.cnf

This worked for me when I want the log to be rotated within rlsothrbackup/rlsspool/MERGEDSPL/

edited Oct 16 '18 at 15:03

Patrick Mevzek

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answered Oct 16 '18 at 11:57

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This cannot work for OP as he has "permission denied" error – bgtvfr Oct 16 '18 at 12:16

error: error creating unique temp file: Permission denied

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