fluent-package logrotate configuration causes logrotate failure if fluentd has never run #796
Description
fluent-package ships a logrotate configuration on a log file that is not guaranteed to exist.
$ cat /etc/logrotate.d/fluentd
/var/log/fluent/fluentd.log {
daily
rotate 30
compress
delaycompress
notifempty
create 640 _fluentd _fluentd
sharedscripts
postrotate
pid=/var/run/fluent/fluentd.pid
if [ -s "$pid" ]
then
kill -USR1 "$(cat $pid)"
fi
endscript
}
This can cause invocations of logrotate to fail with:
$ sudo logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf
error: stat of /var/log/fluent/fluentd.log failed: No such file or directory.
While not having fluentd running may not be a common scenario, I do believe this to be a bug in the package.