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Why are my log files not rotating correctly?
Why is syslog writing to an older log file?
Why is lfd not picking up login failures? (cPanel Server Management)

Due to a bug in logrotate if /tmp is mounted with the noexec option, you need to have logrotate use a different temporary directory. If you don't do this syslog may not restart correctly and will write to the wrong (older) log files.

You can do this by editing /etc/cron.daily/logrotate so that it looks like this:

#!/bin/sh
export TMPDIR=/var/spool/logrotate/tmp

/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf
EXITVALUE=$?
if [ $EXITVALUE != 0 ]; then
    /usr/bin/logger -t logrotate "ALERT exited abnormally with [$EXITVALUE]"
fi
exit 0

Then create the directory:

mkdir -p /var/spool/logrotate/tmp

(Faq ID 38)

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