Getting these emails from root...

grimsdottir

Set up postfix as an outgoing mail daemon.

Started getting these errors. I'm more curious about where to start looking

Subject line:
Cron <root@Hostname> test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )

Body:
/etc/cron.daily/logrotate: error: rsyslog:31 unknown option 'notifemtpy' -- ignoring line

It's odd because the logrotate script doesn't have a line 31 as the error suggests.

What is the context here? I'd love to learn something from this.

rds100

The file you need to look at is /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog

grimsdottir

Not sure how notifempty is an unknown option.

It's not even on line 31. I guess that has to do with the way the config file is read.

I have my auth.log section split out below this portion, that one's notifempty doesn't throw a flag.

/var/log/mail.info
/var/log/mail.warn
/var/log/mail.err
/var/log/mail.log
/var/log/daemon.log
/var/log/kern.log
/var/log/user.log
/var/log/lpr.log
/var/log/cron.log
/var/log/debug
/var/log/messages
{
        rotate 4
        weekly
        missingok
        notifempty
        compress
        delaycompress  /* <-- this is line 31 */
        sharedscripts
        postrotate
                reload rsyslog >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
        endscript
}

rds100

Have you edited this file, or is it the distribution's standard one?
I'd try to erase this line and write it again. Perhaps one of the letters is not what it seems (i.e. cyrillic е instead of latin e). Perhaps there is a space at the end of the line that is confusing the logrotate script. Or something else.

grimsdottir

@rds100 said:
Have you edited this file, or is it the distribution's standard one?
I'd try to erase this line and write it again. Perhaps one of the letters is not what it seems (i.e. cyrillic е instead of latin e). Perhaps there is a space at the end of the line that is confusing the logrotate script. Or something else.

I have made many edits to this file.

Good point, thank you for the tip.

Abdussamad

there's a typo in that line. notifemtpy. empty is misspelled.