Comment # 3 on bug 913421 from Jacob W

The problems is worse that previously mentioned. I also have the problem where
no log was rotated. Made my /var/log/messages 1.2gb because no log was rotated
for the past 5 months. And that's just one log among many that grew to severe
proportions.

It is *not* because my computer has never been on at exactly midnight - it is
on at midnight practically every day. I think this is due to the services not
being enabled.

I updated from 13.1 -> 13.2 via official recommended method. So the problem
seems to be that someone forgot to have the new logrotate services enabled by
default.

Last log rotation: 2014-10-1-13:0:0



# systemctl status logrotate.timer 
logrotate.timer - Daily rotation of log files
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/logrotate.timer; disabled)
   Active: inactive (dead)
     Docs: man:logrotate(8)
           man:logrotate.conf(5)

# systemctl status logrotate.service 
logrotate.service - Rotate log files
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/logrotate.service; static)
   Active: inactive (dead)
     Docs: man:logrotate(8)
           man:logrotate.conf(5)

# systemctl list-timers
<no logrotate listed>



My /usr/lib/systemd/system/logrotate.time:
[Unit]
Description=Daily rotation of log files
Documentation=man:logrotate(8) man:logrotate.conf(5)

[Timer]
OnCalendar=daily
AccuracySec=12h
# not supported by our systemd (210) yet
#Persistent=true

[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target



Reproducible: always (until manually fixed)

Workaround (w/ proof):
# ll -h /var/log/messages
-rw-r----- 1 root root 1.2G
# systemctl enable logrotate.timer
# systemctl start logrotate.timer
# systemctl status logrotate.timer 
logrotate.timer - Daily rotation of log files
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/logrotate.timer; enabled)
   Active: active (waiting) since Fri 2015-04-03 15:46:07 EDT; 6s ago
# systemctl status logrotate.service 
logrotate.service - Rotate log files
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/logrotate.service; static)
   Active: inactive (dead)
# systemctl start logrotate.service
(wait a few minutes for massive log rotation)
# ll -h /var/log/messages
-rw-r----- 1 root root 622
# ls /var/log/messages*
/var/log/messages  /var/log/messages-20141018.xz  /var/log/messages-20150403.xz
# ll -h /var/log/messages-20150403.xz 
-rw-r----- 1 root root 55M 



This bug should be tagged more severe. It can fill up / over time and cause
major malfunction.