Logrotate error vsftpd.log

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Hi People

Didn’t you just know I would be back with some troubles?

This is a clean install on CentOS 5.6

I am getting a cron error as follows :-

/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
error: vsftpd.log:7 duplicate log entry for /var/log/xferlog
error: found error in /var/log/xferlog , skipping

Doing some digging around in /etc/logrotate.d I have vsftpd.log containing :

/var/log/vsftpd.log {
# ftpd doesn’t handle SIGHUP properly
nocompress
missingok
}

/var/log/xferlog {
# ftpd doesn’t handle SIGHUP properly
nocompress
missingok
}

Vsftp is installed but not running and I don’t intend to run it (or should I ?)

There is nothing like /var/log/xferlog

Proftp is running though I haven’t tested it.

Can I or should I uninstall vsftp and just use proftp ?
How can I stop the cron error ?

Or am I missing something?

Sorry to be a pain.

Thanks for reading
Tim

Operating system CentOS Linux 5.6
Webmin version 1.550
Virtualmin version 3.84 Pro
(the “Pro” is using the licence from another server pending migration from a compromised server)

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It sounds like somehow, your system ended up with two logrotate entries for “/var/log/xferlog”.

I’d suggest just commenting one of them out, that should solve the error you’re getting.

-Eric

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Thanks Eric for your reply.

Where would I look for that?

I thought it would be in /etc/logrotate.d but there is only one vsftpd.logthere (content noted above).

Sorry to be so dim.

Tim

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I would comment out the one you see in your vsftpd.log file, that would stop the problem you’re seeing.

The other entry may be in /etc/logrotate.conf, but that’s not the one I’d comment out, I’d comment out the first one you found in the vsftpd.log file.

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Ah! Found the error and now it makes sense, almost.

Proftp is installed and running.
Vsftp is also installed but not running.

There is of course a cron job for Proftp but there is also another cron job for Vsftp. Both of these look at the same log file. Hence the error.

Strange though, The server that I am migrating from is the same spec and OS, that one has the same entries in logrotate.d but the lines in vsftpd.log are commented out. Both were installed on a fresh Centos using install.sh

Strange!

Anyway, issue resolved even if the cause is not known.

Thanks Eric.