Logrotate cronjob not running

Question

I wish to use the following command as a cron job:

/usr/sbin/logrotate /home/xxxx/public_html/cgi-bin/logrotate.conf -f

However the message is:

error: error creating state file /var/lib/logrotate.status: Permission
denied

Is there a way around this?

Answer 1

You can specify the output location of the status file:

/usr/sbin/logrotate -s /home/xxxx/logrotate/logrotate.status /home/xxxx/public_html/cgi-bin/logrotate.conf -f

Answer 2

Try run the cron as sudoer:

sudo /usr/sbin/logrotate /home/xxxx/public_html/cgi-bin/logrotate.conf -f