Daily emails from Cron to Root

December 10, 2014 2.5k views
soheilbalini
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soheilbalini

I recently Installed postfix (and I redirected all emails to Gmail)
every day I receive an email from Cron to root@mydomain, that contains this message:

/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
initctl: invalid command: reopen-logs
Try `initctl --help' for more information.
invoke-rc.d: initscript php5-fpm, action "reopen-logs" failed.
error: error running non-shared postrotate script for /var/log/php5-fpm.log of '/var/log/php5-fpm.log '
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1

the things that I have done recently:

  • my Host name was not a fully qualified domain name so I changed it in Ubuntu hostname file to a domain (probably unrelated :) )
  • I read somewhere to change cron mailto to " " will solve the problem. is it true?

tnx

1 comment
  • ahrotahntee December 10, 2014

    Changing mailto will keep the error from showing up, but you will still have the specified problem. Are you sure that is what you want to do?

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2 Answers
kamaln7 MOD December 10, 2014

It looks like this is a known bug in the php5 package: Bug #1230917 “php5-fpm logrotate errors after package switched t...” : Bugs : php5 package : Ubuntu.

You can manually fix it so that you don't have to wait for a package update to be pushed.

Edit /etc/logrotate.d/php5-fpm and replace

    postrotate
        invoke-rc.d php5-fpm reopen-logs > /dev/null
    endscript

with

    postrotate
        /usr/lib/php5/php5-fpm-reopenlogs
    endscript

Then, create a file in /usr/lib/php5 called php5-fpm-reopenlogs:

sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib/php5
sudo touch /usr/lib/php5/php5-fpm-reopenlogs
sudo chmod +x /usr/lib/php5/php5-fpm-reopenlogs

with the following content:

#!/bin/sh
CONFFILE=/etc/php5/fpm/php-fpm.conf
[ -r /etc/default/php5-fpm ] && . /etc/default/php5-fpm
CONF_PIDFILE=$(sed -n 's/^[[:space:]]*pid[[:space:]]*=[[:space:]]*//p' $CONFFILE)
PIDFILE=${CONF_PIDFILE:-/run/php5-fpm.pid}
[ -r "$PIDFILE" ] && kill -USR1 $(cat "$PIDFILE") > /dev/null
exit 0
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soheilbalini January 29, 2015

Hi. strangely I didn't receive an email for your response to my question. anyway... I'm grateful for your help

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