Logrotation isn't working

[benjaminleighton]

Log rotation isn't working correctly at least for nginx.

Multiple issues

• Logrotate doesn't seem to be able to properly signal and restart nginx and thus it keeps writing to old logs e.g never writes to a fresh access.log and continues writing to a renamed access.log.1
• The processes writing to the log file maybe need the /var/log/nginx directory owned by www-data

In a local installation two changes appear to work

1. changing /etc/logrotate.d/nginx to

   /var/log/nginx/*.log {  
       daily  
       missingok  
       rotate 52  
       compress  
       delaycompress  
       notifempty  
       copytruncate  
       sharedscripts  
       prerotate  
               if [ -d /etc/logrotate.d/httpd-prerotate ]; then \  
                       run-parts /etc/logrotate.d/httpd-prerotate; \  
               fi \  
       endscript   
       postrotate  
               invoke-rc.d nginx rotate >/dev/null 2>&1  
       endscript  
   }  

   because copytruncate bypasses issues with create

2. chmod www-data /var/log/nginx

docker file needs to be updated with these changes, changes tested and other log rotation checked

[benjaminleighton]

Tested fix in locally deployed instance and merged but will wait for redeployment into prod to ensure this is working before closing this issue