s3cmd doesn't work with logrotate?

Question

I imagine this is an issue with permissions, but I can't identify it.

When you install s3cmd you have to configure it by running s3cmd --configure, which creates a config file at ~/.s3cfg. I've done this for user ubuntu. I can correctly put and get files using s3cmd. However, when it's called from logrotate it doesn't work for whatever reason. The problem is I don't even know where logrotate error messages are being logged to. When I manually run logrotate, it does work though!

How should I go about this? Where do I look to find the problem?

Answer 1

I believe logrotate was called by system as root, so s3cmd was called by s3cmd too and expect settings in /root/.s3cfg. If you manually run logrotate as ubuntu then s3cmd was called as ubuntu, so s3cmd expect settings in /root/.s3cfg.