Daily emails from Cron to Root

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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

Kamal Nasser · Answer

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

soheilbalini · Answer

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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Daily emails from Cron to Root