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Title: Plesk system logs are not being rotated in Almalinux
Post by: senthil on Jun 28, 2025, 06:08 AM

Symptoms

System logs are not being rotated:
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-rw-r----- 1 psaadm psaadm 1.5G Jan 25 18:18 /var/lib/plesk/task- manager/runtime/12982/12982/stderr.txt -rw-r----- 1 psaadm psaadm 1.5G Jan 25 14:18 /var/lib/plesk/task- manager/runtime/12954/12954/stderr.txt -rw-r----- 1 psaadm psaadm 1.5G Jan 26 07:19 /var/lib/plesk/task- manager/runtime/13111/13111/stderr.txt -rw-r----- 1 psaadm psaadm 1.5G Jan 26 11:19 /var/lib/plesk/task- manager/runtime/13141/13141/stderr.txt -rw------- 1 root root 178M Jan 26 13:12 /var/log/plesk-php83-fpm/error.log -rw-r----- 1 psaadm root 125G Jan 26 13:13 /var/log/plesk/panel.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 485M Jan 26 13:12 /var/log/plesk/httpsd_access_log
Logrotate system package is not installed:
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# yum list installed |grep logrotate psa-logrotate.x86_64 3.22.0-2.redhat.9+p18.0.64.0+t240819.0541 @PLESK_18_0_65-dist
Server is using Almalinux/CentOS

Cause
Logrotate system package is not installed

Resolution
Install logrotate system package:

Connect to the Plesk server via SSH.
Execute command:
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yum install logrotate Last metadata expiration check: 2:39:22 ago on Sun 26 Jan 2025 05:41:20 PM CET. Dependencies resolved. ======================================================================= Package Architecture Version Repository Size ======================================================================= Installing: logrotate x86_64 3.18.0-8.el9 baseos 74 k Transaction Summary ======================================================================= Install 1 Package Total download size: 74 k Installed size: 153 k Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: logrotate-3.18.0-8.el9.x86_64.rpm 2.6 MB/s | 74 kB 00:00 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- Total 191 kB/s | 74 kB 00:00 Running transaction check Transaction check succeeded. Running transaction test Transaction test succeeded. Running transaction Preparing : 1/1 Running scriptlet: logrotate-3.18.0-8.el9.x86_64 1/1 Installing : logrotate-3.18.0-8.el9.x86_64 1/1 Running scriptlet: logrotate-3.18.0-8.el9.x86_64 1/1 Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/timers.target.wants/logrotate.timer → /usr/lib/systemd/system/logrotate.timer. Verifying : logrotate-3.18.0-8.el9.x86_64 1/1 Installed: logrotate-3.18.0-8.el9.x86_64 Complete!

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