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Author: hal
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To: dng
Subject: [DNG] logrotate "error creating output file"
Hi All,
logrotate started tossing this error about a month ago. Anyone know how to fix it?
Some googling said to try "minsize 1k" in /etc/logrotate.conf but it doesn't work.

Thanks


# logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.conf
error: error creating output file /var/log/ConsoleKit/history.1.gz: File exists
error: error creating output file /var/log/cups/access_log.1.gz: File exists
error: error creating output file /var/log/cups/error_log.1.gz: File exists
error: error creating output file /var/log/cups/page_log.1.gz: File exists
error: error creating output file /var/log/dpkg.log.1.gz: File exists
error: error creating output file /var/log/alternatives.log.1.gz: File exists
error: error creating output file /var/log/pm-powersave.log.1.gz: File exists
error: error creating output file /var/log/mail.info.1.gz: File exists
error: error creating output file /var/log/mail.warn.1.gz: File exists
error: error creating output file /var/log/mail.log.1.gz: File exists
error: error creating output file /var/log/daemon.log.1.gz: File exists
error: error creating output file /var/log/kern.log.1.gz: File exists
error: error creating output file /var/log/auth.log.1.gz: File exists
error: error creating output file /var/log/user.log.1.gz: File exists
error: error creating output file /var/log/cron.log.1.gz: File exists
error: error creating output file /var/log/debug.1.gz: File exists
error: error creating output file /var/log/messages.1.gz: File exists
error: error creating output file /var/log/syslog.1.gz: File exists
error: error creating output file /var/log/slim.log.1: File exists

# dir /var/log/ConsoleKit/history.1.gz:
ls: cannot access /var/log/ConsoleKit/history.1.gz:: No such file or directory