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I am trying to use logrotate ,

I have create file in logrotate.d directory with "rotatetest" name. Please see below detail in file:

/etc/rsa/rotatetest {

 create

 size 100k

 rotate 10

 missingok

 compress

 dateext

 postrotate

        service rsyslog restart

endscript

}

when i tried to run logrotate -f rotatetest , it given error as below

error: rotatetest:1 unknown option 'Oct' -- ignoring line

error: rotatetest:1 unexpected text

error: rotatetest:2 unknown option 'Oct' -- ignoring line

error: rotatetest:2 unexpected text

error: rotatetest:3 unknown option 'Oct' -- ignoring line

error: rotatetest:3 unexpected text

When you give the command logrotate -f rotatetest to rotate the logs according to the rotatetest configuration file, the command would pick up the rotatetest file from the current directory.

It seems plausible that your current working directory may be /etc/rsa. This would cause logrotate to try using your logfile as its configuration file. Since it can't make heads or tails of the logfile, it complains. It's the Oct string in the error message that makes me think that it tries to use the logfile as a configuration file.

Instead, use

logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.d/rotatetest

so that logrotate picks up the correct configuration file.