logrotate not working

[kitenski]

I think I have some weird issue due to timestamps, but I'm unclear how to fix it and get logrotate working!!

Can anyone suggest how to fix the rotation please?

The system date and time appear to be ok

[root@alarm log]# date
Tue Oct 20 17:36:23 BST 2015

[root@alarm log]# systemctl status logrotate.timer
â logrotate.timer - Daily rotation of log files
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/logrotate.timer; static; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (waiting) since Thu 1970-01-01 01:00:10 BST; 45 years 9 months ago
Jan 01 01:00:10 alarm systemd[1]: Started Daily rotation of log files.
Jan 01 01:00:10 alarm systemd[1]: Starting Daily rotation of log files.


Sample of /var/log files
-rw-r----- 1 root log 76329754 Oct 20 17:30 messages.log
-rw-r----- 1 root log 357751 Jan 1 1970 messages.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 root log 2643 Jan 5 2014 messages.log.2
-rw-r----- 1 root log 1439 Dec 30 2013 messages.log.3
-rw-r----- 1 root log 1129 Dec 22 2013 messages.log.4

[WarheadsSE]

IDK which board you have, but it is pretty clear it does not have a battery-backed RTC. Hence at boot, it can be as old as 1970.

[kitenski]

It's a Pogoplug v2.

I've sorted it by following this thread (I think), time will tell!!

Deleting the status file appears to have fixed the issue.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=171805