cron.daily question

    I have a question and hope that someone can't point me the right direction. Everyday I get an email telling me this:


    /etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
    invoke-rc.d: action rotate is unknown, but proceeding anyway.


    Where do i look to fix this. and/or keep it from notifying me everyday about it. I do want leave my notifications on, just don't want to see this everyday in my inbox It's more of an annoyance than anything but if I can fix the problem i'd like to.

    Just came across the same problem.
    Found a simple solution here: link


    Ok. If you get the problem again, just do: rm /usr/sbin/policy-rc.dThis file that is created by i-MSCP is normally deleted automatically after packages installation/update.


    Removing /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d (which was an empty file here) made the error messages go away and I haven't noticed any other problem related to removing this file... so far!


    BUT BE WARNED! Use at your own risk!
    I just wanted to let you know what I found out by searching on the internet and I will not take any responsibility to anything going wrong on your system!


    Here are a few more links related to /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d:

    actually what I ended up doing was deleting that directory entirely. Weather that will cause a major issue or not, i'm not sure. so i did an rm -f /etc/cron.daily/logrotate and the problem was gone. hopefully it doesn't mess up any major alerts, like if a drive is failing or something.

    Well, /etc/cron.daily/logrotate shouldn't be a directory...
    Every file in /etc/cron.daily/ will be executed once a day (well, as it says: daily ;) ).
    So, removing /etc/cron.daily/logrotate simply removes the execution of logrotate from your daily cron.
    So - as far as I understand - you basically disabled the log rotation which shouldn't mess anything up, but without rotation log files will become much bigger gradually and therefore the system might start to slow down.

    Haha, I guess I should probably fix that then huh? Didn't realize that's what it was doing. Just got tired of it sending me an email saying it know what to do. I actually just upgraded the system to 3. Would it have corrected the issue when the new files were installed? Otherwise how would one go about fixing what I deleted? 8|

    Well, if there is no new logrotate file in /etc/cron.daily after the update/upgrade you could simply create a new file.
    On my system it looks like this (no changes made there):


    Bash
    #!/bin/sh


test -x /usr/sbin/logrotate || exit 0
/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf

    Owner and permission are all the same for all files in /etc/cron.daily (with ".placeholder" as a exception):


    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 89 Nov 8 2014 logrotate


    Hope that helps ;).

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