bug#72527: Rottlog never exits cleanly

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Simon,

Simon Streit <simon@netpanic.org> skribis:

> On inspection of the default settings for Rot[t]logs service, and
> reading through /var/log/mcron.log, rottlog always exits with the
> following error:
>
> 2024-08-07 12:00:00 3408 
> /gnu/store/scligrs2fwpsy6jvffraa274k7ipbg81-rottlog-0.72.2/sbin/rottlog: 
> running...
> 2024-08-07 12:00:01 3408 
> /gnu/store/scligrs2fwpsy6jvffraa274k7ipbg81-rottlog-0.72.2/sbin/rottlog: 
> failed after 0.199s with: (misc-error #f unclean exit status ~S (1) #f)
>
>
> Checking directly:
>
> root@host ~# 
> /gnu/store/scligrs2fwpsy6jvffraa274k7ipbg81-rottlog-0.72.2/sbin/rottlog -v
> read_custom: Config file 'custom' does not exist
> read_daily: Config file 'daily' does not exist
> check_last_rotate: Checking for week(ly) config file
> check_last_rotate: Old date  : 1722810339
> check_last_rotate: New date  : 1723125091
> check_last_rotate: Next date : Thu 15 Aug 16:51:31 CEST 2024
> check_last_rotate: Rotation not needed: 314752 < 604800
> read_monthly: Config file 'monthly' does not exist
> root@host ~# echo $?
> 1

FWIW I would recommend not investing too much time in Rottlog: well
hopefully be able to migrate to the Shepherds log rotation service in
the coming months.

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2024-05/msg00159.html

Ludo’.