What is rotating my haproxy logs?

Question

I have a haproxy logrotate configuration file in /etc/logrotate.d/haproxy that looks like this:

"var/log/haproxy.log" "/var/log/haproxy-status.log" {
  daily
  size 250M
  rotate 1
  create 644 root root
  missingok
  compress
  notifyempty
  copytruncate
}

which is not working. I have proved this by running logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.d/haproxy which gives me skipping "/var/log/haproxy.log" because parent directory has insecure permissions - I have a work in progress to fix this, my question is different.

However, my logs are still being rotated by something else. Where can I find what might be rotating those logs?

Answer 1

I think your issue is just a typo.

Note that in your configuration you have: "var/log/haproxy.log"

This is a relative path and should be changed to be an absolute path:

"/var/log/haproxy.log"

So finally your config file should be:

"/var/log/haproxy.log" "/var/log/haproxy-status.log" {
  daily
  size 250M
  rotate 1
  create 644 root root
  missingok
  compress
  notifyempty
  copytruncate
}

Anything that rotates logs is located in /etc/logrotate.conf, which in turn includes /etc/logrotate.d directory. Anything matching your haproxy path is rotating your logs.

Answer 2

To check if Your log is rotated use following command

cat /var/lib/logrotate/status |grep haproxy

or (other systems)

cat /var/lib/logrotate.status |grep haproxy

If You find it, look at /etc/logrotate.conf and /etc/logrotate.d/* files.

grep -r log /etc/logrotate*