Error in macromilter.logrotate - ubuntu

[sbidy]

Error if logrotate script used with ubuntu:

logrotate_script: 2: logrotate_script: systemctl: not found
error: error running shared postrotate script for '/var/log/macromilter/macromilter.log'

and

sysctl: cannot stat /proc/sys/try-restart: No such file or directory
sysctl: cannot stat /proc/sys/macromilter/service: No such file or directory
error: error running shared postrotate script for '/var/log/macromilter/macromilter.log'

[robert-scheck]

Which version of Ubuntu is that? No systemctl sounds like an older Ubuntu. The second with sysctl is definately wrong. Does Ubuntu ship service by default? Then this could be likely used as wrapper for all, SysVinit, upstart and systemd.

[sbidy]

It is a (old) 14.04.1 Ubuntu and yes service is a default package. But I can't simply replace the systemctl with service.

Can we switch to a systemd command because it is more independent to distributions I guess?

[robert-scheck]

• service is historically a wrapper for SysVinit scripts, but can also handle systemd unit files (at least at Fedora and RHEL, to be tested for other distributions)
• systemctl is the standard command line tool for systemd unit files
• sysctl has nothing to do with init stuff

Not sure how it is for Ubuntu, but in Fedora and RHEL, the following works as expected transparently:

$ service macromilter restart
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl restart macromilter.service
$ 

[sbidy]

I changed the postrotate command to service macromilter restart. Now it should work on Ubuntu/Debian and Fed./RHEL.