[Fetchmail-users] Fetchmail logrotate script works once then fails next run

[Chris <cpo...@em...>]

This is a logrotate configuration file that I modified from what
Matthias had put out about 10yrs ago. I modified it to fit my needs:

/home/chris/fetchmaillog {
	weekly
	rotate 8
	compress
	dateext
	missingok
	notifempty
	create 0664 chris chris
        sharedscripts
        postrotate
        /usr/local/bin/fetchmail --quit
        /usr/local/bin/fetchmail -v --nokeep --nosyslog --logfile
/home/chris/fetchmaillog --uidl -m procmail
        endscript
}

This is the command to execute the rotation Sunday mornings at 8am. For
some reason without the -f it will tell me the log doesn't need
rotation. 

/usr/sbin/logrotate -f -v --state=/home/chris/logrotate/status
/home/chris/logrotate/fetchmail.logrotate

It ran fine on 5 Feb:

reading config file /home/chris/logrotate/fetchmail.logrotate

Handling 1 logs

rotating pattern: /home/chris/fetchmaillog  forced from command line (8
rotations)
empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /home/chris/fetchmaillog
  log needs rotating
rotating log /home/chris/fetchmaillog, log->rotateCount is 8
dateext suffix '-20170205'
glob pattern '-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]'
renaming /home/chris/fetchmaillog to /home/chris/fetchmaillog-20170205
creating new /home/chris/fetchmaillog mode = 0664 uid = 1000 gid = 1000
running postrotate script
fetchmail: background fetchmail at 1700 killed.
compressing log with: /bin/gzip

Although to be honest I can't recall if it was restarted or not. That's
why I have it running at 8am when I can observe. When logrotate was run
this morning however:

reading config file /home/chris/logrotate/fetchmail.logrotate

Handling 1 logs

rotating pattern: /home/chris/fetchmaillog  forced from command line (8
rotations)
empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /home/chris/fetchmaillog
  log needs rotating
rotating log /home/chris/fetchmaillog, log->rotateCount is 8
dateext suffix '-20170212'
glob pattern '-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]'
renaming /home/chris/fetchmaillog to /home/chris/fetchmaillog-20170212
creating new /home/chris/fetchmaillog mode = 0664 uid = 1000 gid = 1000
running postrotate script
fetchmail: background fetchmail at 3786 killed.
fetchmail: can't accept options while a background fetchmail is
running.
argc = 9, arg list:
arg 1 = "-v"
arg 2 = "--nokeep"
arg 3 = "--nosyslog"
arg 4 = "--logfile"
arg 5 = "/home/chris/fetchmaillog"
arg 6 = "--uidl"
arg 7 = "-m"
arg 8 = "procmail"
error: error running shared postrotate script for
'/home/chris/fetchmaillog '

I don't understand why it worked the first time but not the 2nd as
nothing was changed in between.

Apologies Matthias when I said yesterday it was working.

Chris

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