Im currently running of ideas. The proftpd doesn't restart, if logrotate is triggered by the cron task. Logrotate rotates all logfiles stops proftpd but does not start proftpd again.

If i force the rotation with logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.d/proftpd-basic everything works fine..

Any kind of ideas are welcome.

I got the following setup.

cat /etc/cron.daily/logrotate

#!/bin/sh test -x /usr/sbin/logrotate || exit 0 /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf 

cat /etc/logrotate.conf

# see "man logrotate" for details # rotate log files weekly weekly # keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs rotate 4 # create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones create # uncomment this if you want your log files compressed #compress # packages drop log rotation information into this directory include /etc/logrotate.d # no packages own wtmp, or btmp -- we'll rotate them here /var/log/wtmp { missingok monthly create 0664 root utmp rotate 1 } /var/log/btmp { missingok monthly create 0660 root utmp rotate 1 } # system-specific logs may be configured here 

cat /etc/logrotate.d/proftpd-basic

/var/log/proftpd/proftpd.log /var/log/proftpd/controls.log { weekly missingok rotate 7 compress delaycompress notifempty create 640 root adm sharedscripts postrotate # reload could be not sufficient for all logs, a restart is safer invoke-rc.d proftpd restart 2>/dev/null >/dev/null || true #invoke-rc.d proftpd reload 2>/dev/null >/dev/null || true endscript } /var/log/proftpd/xferlog /var/log/proftpd/xferreport { monthly missingok rotate 7 compress delaycompress notifempty create 640 root adm sharedscripts prerotate endscript postrotate # reload could be not sufficient for all logs, a restart is safer invoke-rc.d proftpd restart 2>/dev/null >/dev/null || true #invoke-rc.d proftpd reload 2>/dev/null >/dev/null || true # run ftpstats on past transfer log ftpstats -a -r -l 2 -d -h -f /var/log/proftpd/xferlog.0 2>/dev/null >/var/log/proftpd/xferreport || true endscript }